RAE 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

High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu₂O photoelectrodes

L Pan, L Dai, OJ Burton, L Chen, V Andrei, Y Zhang, D Ren, J Cheng, L Wu, K Frohna, A Abfalterer, TC-J Yang, W Niu, M Xia, S Hofmann, PJ Dyson, E Reisner, H Sirringhaus, J Luo, A Hagfeldt, M Grätzel, SD Stranks

Nature

(2024)

628

765

(doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07273-8)

Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using Homogeneous Carbon Dots with a Molecular Cobalt Catalyst.

D Kim, S Bhattacharjee, E Lam, C Casadevall, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, E Reisner

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

(2024)

20

e2400057

(doi: 10.1002/smll.202400057)

Electrostatic [FeFe]-hydrogenase-carbon nitride assemblies for efficient solar hydrogen production.

Y Liu, C Pulignani, S Webb, SJ Cobb, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, D Kim, RD Milton, E Reisner

Chemical science

(2024)

15

6088

(doi: 10.1039/d4sc00640b)

Low-temperature open-atmosphere growth of WO 3 thin films with tunable and high-performance photoresponse

Z Sun, S Bhattacharjee, M Xiao, W Li, MO Hill, RA Jagt, L-V Delumeau, KP Musselman, E Reisner, J MacManus-Driscoll

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

(2024)

12

4779

(doi: 10.1039/d3tc02257a)

Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts

M Seif-Eddine, SJ Cobb, Y Dang, K Abdiaziz, MA Bajada, E Reisner, MM Roessler

Nat Chem

(2024)

16

1015

(doi: 10.1038/s41557-024-01450-y)

Solar reforming as an emerging technology for circular chemical industries.

S Bhattacharjee, S Linley, E Reisner

Nat Rev Chem

(2024)

8

1

(doi: 10.1038/s41570-023-00567-x)

Organic semiconductor-BiVO4 tandems for solar-driven H2O and CO2 splitting

C Yeung, V Andrei, T Ho Lee, J Durrant, E Reisner

(2024)

(doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-ql0bc)

Low-temperature open-atmosphere growth of WO₃ thin films with tunable and high-performance photoresponse

Z Sun, S Bhattacharjee, M Xiao, W Li, MO Hill, RA Jagt, L-V Delumeau, KP Musselman, E Reisner, J MacManus-Driscoll

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

(2024)

12

4779

(doi: 10.1039/d3tc02257a)

Connecting Biological and Synthetic Approaches for Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction

SJ Cobb, S Rodríguez‐Jiménez, E Reisner

Angewandte Chemie

(2023)

136

e202310547

(doi: 10.1002/ange.202310547)

Connecting Biological and Synthetic Approaches for Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction

SJ Cobb, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, E Reisner

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

(2023)

63

e202310547

(doi: 10.1002/anie.202310547)