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

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 H2 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)

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

J Am Chem Soc

(2023)

145

13709

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c01892)

Solar-driven liquid multi-carbon 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)