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Professor Erwin Reisner

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

Valorisation of lignocellulose and low concentration CO2 using a fractionation-photocatalysis-electrolysis process.
S Rodríguez-Jiménez, E Lam, S Bhattacharjee, E Reisner
– Green Chem
(2023)
25,
10611
(doi: 10.1039/d3gc03258b)
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)
Best practices for experiments and reporting in photocatalytic CO2 reduction
M Bonchio, J Bonin, O Ishitani, T-B 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)
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)
Rational Design of Covalent Multiheme Cytochrome‐Carbon Dot Biohybrids for Photoinduced Electron Transfer
H Zhang, C Casadevall, JH van Wonderen, L Su, JN Butt, E Reisner, LJC Jeuken
– Advanced Functional Materials
(2023)
33,
2302204
(doi: 10.1002/adfm.202302204)
Low-Volume Reaction Monitoring of Carbon Dot Light Absorbers in Optofluidic Microreactors
T Lawson, AS Gentleman, A Lage, C Casadevall, J Xiao, T Petit, MH Frosz, E Reisner, TG Euser
– ACS Catalysis
(2023)
13,
9090
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.3c02212)
Integrated capture and solar-driven utilization of CO2 from flue gas and air
S Kar, M Rahaman, V Andrei, S Bhattacharjee, S Roy, E Reisner
– Joule
(2023)
7,
1496
(doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2023.05.022)
Thermoelectric-Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting under Concentrated Solar Irradiation
C Pornrungroj, V Andrei, E Reisner
– J Am Chem Soc
(2023)
145,
13709
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c01892)
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Email address

er376@cam.ac.uk

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