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Professor Erwin Reisner

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

Photoelectrochemical water oxidation with photosystem II integrated in a mesoporous indium-tin oxide electrode.
M Kato, T Cardona, AW Rutherford, E Reisner
– J Am Chem Soc
(2012)
134,
8332
(doi: 10.1021/ja301488d)
Group 11 complexes containing the [C5(CN)5]- ligand; 'coordination-analogues' of molecular organometallic systems.
RJ Less, B Guan, NM Muresan, M McPartlin, E Reisner, TC Wilson, DS Wright
– Dalton Trans
(2012)
41,
5919
(doi: 10.1039/c2dt30274h)
Colloidal metal oxide particles loaded with synthetic catalysts for solar H 2 production
F Lakadamyali, M Kato, E Reisner
– Faraday Discuss
(2012)
155,
191
(doi: 10.1039/c1fd00077b)
A TiO₂ nanoparticle system for sacrificial solar H₂ production prepared by rational combination of a hydrogenase with a ruthenium photosensitizer.
E Reisner, FA Armstrong
– Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
(2011)
743,
107
(doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-132-1_9)
Insights into the mode of action of bioreductive ruthenium cytotoxins
E Reisner
(2011)
227
Photocatalytic H2 evolution from neutral water with a molecular cobalt catalyst on a dye-sensitised TiO2 nanoparticle
F Lakadamyali, E Reisner
– Chem Commun (Camb)
(2011)
47,
1695
(doi: 10.1039/c0cc04658b)
Solar hydrogen evolution with hydrogenases: From natural to hybrid systems
E Reisner
– European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
(2010)
2011,
1005
(doi: 10.1002/ejic.201000986)
Current challenges of modeling diiron enzyme active sites for dioxygen activation by biomimetic synthetic complexes
S Friedle, E Reisner, SJ Lippard
– Chemical Society Reviews
(2010)
39,
2768
(doi: 10.1039/c003079c)
Efficient and clean photoreduction of CO2 to CO by enzyme-modified TiO2 nanoparticles using visible light
TW Woolerton, S Sheard, E Reisner, E Pierce, SW Ragsdale, FA Armstrong
– J Am Chem Soc
(2010)
132,
2132
(doi: 10.1021/ja910091z)
Visible light-driven H2 production by hydrogenases attached to dye-sensitized TiO2 nanoparticles
E Reisner, DJ Powell, C Cavazza, JC Fontecilla-Camps, FA Armstrong
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2009)
131,
18457
(doi: 10.1021/ja907923r)
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