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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

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)
Valorisation of lignocellulose and low concentration CO 2 using a fractionation–photocatalysis–electrolysis process
S Rodríguez-Jiménez, E Lam, S Bhattacharjee, E Reisner
– Green Chem
(2023)
25,
10611
(doi: 10.1039/d3gc03258b)
Hybrid photothermal–photocatalyst sheets for solar-driven overall water splitting coupled to water purification
C Pornrungroj, AB Mohamad Annuar, Q Wang, M Rahaman, S Bhattacharjee, V Andrei, E Reisner
– Nature Water
(2023)
1,
952
(doi: 10.1038/s44221-023-00139-9)
Driving electrochemical organic hydrogenations on metal catalysts by tailoring hydrogen surface coverages
T Li, A Ciotti, M Rahaman, CWS Yeung, M García-Melchor, E Reisner
(2023)
(doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-146f9)
Size-dependent activity of carbon dots for photocatalytic H 2 generation in combination with a molecular Ni cocatalyst
C Casadevall, A Lage, M Mu, HF Greer, D Antón-García, JN Butt, LJC Jeuken, GW Watson, M García-Melchor, E Reisner
– Nanoscale
(2023)
15,
15775
(doi: 10.1039/d3nr03300g)
Chemoenzymatic Photoreforming: A Sustainable Approach for Solar Fuel Generation from Plastic Feedstocks.
S Bhattacharjee, C Guo, E Lam, JM Holstein, M Rangel Pereira, CM Pichler, C Pornrungroj, M Rahaman, T Uekert, F Hollfelder, E Reisner
– J Am Chem Soc
(2023)
145,
20355
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c05486)
Photocatalytic CO2 reduction
S Fang, M Rahaman, J Bharti, E Reisner, M Robert, GA Ozin, YH Hu
– Nature Reviews Methods Primers
(2023)
3,
61
(doi: 10.1038/s43586-023-00243-w)
Best practices for experiments and reporting in photocatalytic CO2 reduction
M Bonchio, J Bonin, O Ishitani, TB Lu, T Morikawa, AJ Morris, E Reisner, D Sarkar, FM Toma, M Robert
– Nature Catalysis
(2023)
6,
657
(doi: 10.1038/s41929-023-00992-7)
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er376@cam.ac.uk

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