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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

Photoelectrochemical CO2-to-fuel conversion with simultaneous plastic reforming
S Bhattacharjee, M Rahaman, V Andrei, M Miller, S Rodríguez-Jiménez, E Lam, C Pornrungroj, E Reisner
– Nature Synthesis
(2023)
2,
182
(doi: 10.1038/s44160-022-00196-0)
Solar Panel Technologies for Light-to-Chemical Conversion
V Andrei, Q Wang, T Uekert, S Bhattacharjee, E Reisner
– Accounts of chemical research
(2022)
55,
3376
(doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00477)
Rational Design of Carbon Nitride Photoelectrodes with High Activity Toward Organic Oxidations
C Pulignani, CA Mesa, SAJ Hillman, T Uekert, S Giménez, JR Durrant, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2022)
61,
e202211587
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202211587)
Rational Design of Carbon Nitride Photoelectrodes with High Activity Toward Organic Oxidations
C Pulignani, CA Mesa, SAJ Hillman, T Uekert, S Giménez, JR Durrant, E Reisner
– Angewandte Chemie
(2022)
134,
e202211587
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202211587)
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 Catal
(2022)
12,
13360
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.2c02689)
Carboxysome-inspired electrocatalysis using enzymes for the reduction of CO2 at low concentrations
S Cobb, A Dharani, AR Oliveira, I Pereira, E Reisner
(2022)
(doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-l9vp2)
Floating Carbon Nitride Composites for Practical Solar Reforming of Pre-treated Wastes to Hydrogen Gas
S Linley, E Reisner
(2022)
(doi: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-t0jzc)
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,
e202211057
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202211057)
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er376@cam.ac.uk

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