Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies

Professor of Energy and Sustainability

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

Cu₂O|NiO_x nanocomposite as an inexpensive photocathode in photoelectrochemical water splitting

C-Y Lin, Y-H Lai, D Mersch, E Reisner

Chemical Science

(2012)

3

3482

(doi: 10.1039/c2sc20874a)

Immobilization of a molecular cobaloxime catalyst for hydrogen evolution on a mesoporous metal oxide electrode.

NM Muresan, J Willkomm, D Mersch, Y Vaynzof, E Reisner

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)

(2012)

51

12749

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201207448)

Electron transfer in dye-sensitised semiconductors modified with molecular cobalt catalysts: Photoreduction of aqueous protons

F Lakadamyali, A Reynal, M Kato, JR Durrant, E Reisner

Chemistry A European Journal

(2012)

18

15464

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201202149)

Facile assembly of an efficient CoO x water oxidation electrocatalyst from Co-containing polyoxotitanate nanocages

Y-H Lai, C-Y Lin, Y Lv, TC King, A Steiner, NM Muresan, L Gan, DS Wright, E Reisner

Chem. Commun.

(2012)

49

4331

(doi: 10.1039/c2cc34934e)

Selective Reduction of Aqueous Protons to Hydrogen with a Synthetic Cobaloxime Catalyst in the Presence of Atmospheric Oxygen

F Lakadamyali, M Kato, NM Muresan, E Reisner

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(2012)

51

9381

(doi: 10.1002/anie.201204180)

Formation of Ti28Ln Cages, the Highest Nuclearity Polyoxotitanates (Ln=La, Ce)

Y Lv, J Willkomm, M Leskes, A Steiner, TC King, L Gan, E Reisner, PT Wood, DS Wright

Chemistry

(2012)

18

11867

(doi: 10.1002/chem.201201827)

Encapsulation of a ‘naked’ Br− anion in a polyoxotitanate host

Y Lv, J Willkomm, A Steiner, L Gan, E Reisner, DS Wright

Chemical Science

(2012)

3

2470

(doi: 10.1039/c2sc20193c)

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 [C 5 (CN) 5 ] − ligand ; ‘coordination-analogues’ of molecular organometallic systems

RJ Less, B Guan, NM Muresan, M McPartlin, E Reisner, TC Wilson, DS Wright

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

(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 discussions

(2012)

155

191

(doi: 10.1039/c1fd00077b)