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RAE Chair in Emerging Technologies

Our research

The Reisner laboratory develops new concepts and technologies for the conversion of solar energy and renewable electricity into sustainable fuels and chemicals for a circular economy. Thus, we explore chemical aspects of energy and sustainability, in particular photo- and electrocatalysis and the interface of synthetic chemistry, materials and nano-science, chemical biology and engineering. Central themes of our cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach are the development of processes for the upcycling of plastic and biomass waste as well as the use of carbon dioxide and water to produce green fuels and chemicals for a sustainable future.

More information can be found on our group website.

Keywords: Solar fuels, solar chemicals, artificial photosynthesis, biohybrid materials, water and CO₂ splitting, small molecule activation, catalysis, metalloenzymes, microbiology, biomimetic chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, materials Chemistry, nanotechnology, functional and energy materials.

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Publications

Synthesis, structure and reactivity of Ni site models of [NiFeSe] hydrogenases

C Wombwell, E Reisner

– Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

(2014)

43,

4483

(doi: 10.1039/c3dt52967c)

Photoelectrochemical reduction of aqueous protons with a CuO|CuBi2O4 heterojunction under visible light irradiation.

HS Park, C-Y Lee, E Reisner

– Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

(2014)

16,

22462

(doi: 10.1039/c4cp03883e)

Structural Models of the Nickel Site in [NiFeSe]-Hydrogenases as Precursors for Nickel Containing Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Evolution in Water

C Wombwell, E Reisner

– JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

(2014)

19,

S490

(link to publication)

Protein film photoelectrochemistry of the water oxidation enzyme photosystem II

M Kato, JZ Zhang, N Paul, E Reisner

– Chemical Society Reviews

(2014)

43,

6485

(doi: 10.1039/c4cs00031e)

Distance dependent charge separation and recombination in semiconductor/molecular catalyst systems for water splitting.

A Reynal, J Willkomm, NM Muresan, F Lakadamyali, M Planells, E Reisner, JR Durrant

– Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

(2014)

50,

12768

(doi: 10.1039/c4cc05143b)

Cobalt sulphide microtube array as cathode in photoelectrochemical water splitting with photoanodes

CY Lin, D Mersch, DA Jefferson, E Reisner

– Chem. Sci.

(2014)

5,

4906

(doi: 10.1039/c4sc01811g)

Proton reduction by molecular catalysts in water under demanding atmospheres.

DW Wakerley, MA Gross, E Reisner

– Chemical Communications

(2014)

50,

15995

(doi: 10.1039/c4cc06159d)

Versatile photocatalytic systems for H2 generation in water based on an efficient DuBois-type nickel catalyst

MA Gross, A Reynal, JR Durrant, E Reisner

– J Am Chem Soc

(2013)

136,

356

(doi: 10.1021/ja410592d)

RYB tri-colour electrochromism based on a molecular cobaloxime

MRJ Scherer, NM Muresan, U Steiner, E Reisner

– Chemical Communications

(2013)

49,

10453

(doi: 10.1039/c3cc45881d)

Parameters affecting electron transfer dynamics from semiconductors to molecular catalysts for the photochemical reduction of protons

A Reynal, F Lakadamyali, MA Gross, E Reisner, JR Durrant

– Energy & Environmental Science

(2013)

6,

3291

(doi: 10.1039/c3ee40961a)