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

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 Mol Biol

(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 CO(2) to CO by enzyme-modified TiO(2) 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 H-2 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)

Water-gas shift reaction catalyzed by redox enzymes on conducting graphite platelets.

O Lazarus, TW Woolerton, A Parkin, MJ Lukey, E Reisner, J Seravalli, E Pierce, SW Ragsdale, F Sargent, FA Armstrong

J Am Chem Soc

(2009)

131

14154

(doi: 10.1021/ja905797w)

Catalytic electrochemistry of a [NiFeSe]-hydrogenase on TiO2 and demonstration of its suitability for visible-light driven H2 production

E Reisner, JC Fontecilla-Camps, FA Armstrong

Chem. Commun.

(2008)

550

(doi: 10.1039/b817371k)

Dynamic electrochemical investigations of hydrogen oxidation and production by enzymes and implications for future technology.

FA Armstrong, NA Belsey, JA Cracknell, G Goldet, A Parkin, E Reisner, KA Vincent, AF Wait

Chemical Society reviews

(2008)

38

36

(doi: 10.1039/b801144n)