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

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, 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)

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

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2023)

145

13709

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c01892)

Solar-driven liquid multicarbon fuel production using a standalone perovskite-BiVO4 artificial leaf

M Rahaman, V Andrei, D Wright, E Lam, C Pornrungroj, S Bhattacharjee, C Pichler, H Greer, J Baumberg, E Reisner

Nature Energy

(2023)

8

629

(doi: 10.1038/s41560-023-01262-3)

Floating Carbon Nitride Composites for Practical Solar Reforming of Pre-Treated Wastes to Hydrogen Gas

S Linley, E Reisner

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)

(2023)

10

e2207314

(doi: 10.1002/advs.202207314)

Carboxysome-Inspired Electrocatalysis using Enzymes for the Reduction of CO2 at Low Concentrations.

SJ Cobb, AM Dharani, AR Oliveira, IAC Pereira, E Reisner

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

(2023)

62

e202218782

(doi: 10.1002/anie.202218782)

Carboxysome‐Inspired Electrocatalysis using Enzymes for the Reduction of CO2 at Low Concentrations**

SJ Cobb, AM Dharani, AR Oliveira, IAC Pereira, E Reisner

Angewandte Chemie

(2023)

135

e202218782

(doi: 10.1002/ange.202218782)