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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

Bio-Electrocatalytic Conversion of Food Waste to Ethylene via Succinic Acid as the Central Intermediate
CM Pichler, S Bhattacharjee, E Lam, L Su, A Collauto, MM Roessler, SJ Cobb, VM Badiani, M Rahaman, E Reisner
– ACS catalysis
(2022)
12,
13360
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.2c02689)
Microbial Fermentation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Waste for the Production of Chemicals or Electricity
S Kalathil, M Miller, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
(2022)
61,
e202211057
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202211057)
Microbial Fermentation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Waste for the Production of Chemicals or Electricity**
S Kalathil, M Miller, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie
(2022)
134,
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202211057)
Reaction of Thiosulfate Dehydrogenase with a Substrate Mimic Induces Dissociation of the Cysteine Heme Ligand Giving Insights into the Mechanism of Oxidative Catalysis
LP Jenner, JC Crack, JM Kurth, Z Soldánová, L Brandt, KP Sokol, E Reisner, JM Bradley, C Dahl, MR Cheesman, JN Butt
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2022)
144,
18296
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c06062)
Photocatalytic Removal of the Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide by Liposomal Microreactors.
SEH Piper, C Casadevall, E Reisner, TA Clarke, LJC Jeuken, AJ Gates, JN Butt
– Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2022)
61,
e202210572
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202210572)
Photocatalytic Removal of the Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide by Liposomal Microreactors.
SEH Piper, C Casadevall, E Reisner, TA Clarke, LJC Jeuken, AJ Gates, JN Butt
– Angewandte Chemie (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
(2022)
134,
e202210572
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202210572)
Floating perovskite-BiVO4 devices for scalable solar fuel production
V Andrei, GM Ucoski, C Pornrungroj, C Uswachoke, Q Wang, DS Achilleos, H Kasap, KP Sokol, RA Jagt, H Lu, T Lawson, A Wagner, SD Pike, DS Wright, RLZ Hoye, JL MacManus-Driscoll, HJ Joyce, RH Friend, E Reisner
– Nature
(2022)
608,
518
(doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04978-6)
Publisher Correction: Bacteria–photocatalyst sheet for sustainable carbon dioxide utilization (Nature Catalysis, (2022), 5, 7, (633-641), 10.1038/s41929-022-00817-z)
Q Wang, S Kalathil, C Pornrungroj, CD Sahm, E Reisner
– Nature Catalysis
(2022)
5,
746
(doi: 10.1038/s41929-022-00835-x)
Engineering Electro- and Photocatalytic Carbon Materials for CO2Reduction by Formate Dehydrogenase
VM Badiani, C Casadevall, M Miller, SJ Cobb, RR Manuel, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2022)
144,
14207
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c04529)
Bacteria-photocatalyst sheet for sustainable carbon dioxide utilization
Q Wang, S Kalathil, C Pornrungroj, CD Sahm, E Reisner
– Nature Catalysis
(2022)
5,
633
(doi: 10.1038/s41929-022-00817-z)
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