Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

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

An Integrated Carbon Nitride‐Nickel Photocatalyst for the Amination of Aryl Halides Using Sodium Azide
A Vijeta, C Casadevall, E Reisner
Angewandte Chemie
(2022)
134
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202203176)
Long-term solar water and CO2 splitting with photoelectrochemical BiOI–BiVO4 tandems
V Andrei, RA Jagt, M Rahaman, L Lari, VK Lazarov, JL MacManus-Driscoll, RLZ Hoye, E Reisner
Nature materials
(2022)
21
(doi: 10.1038/s41563-022-01262-w)
Self-Assembled Liposomes Enhance Electron Transfer for Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction
S Rodríguez-Jiménez, H Song, E Lam, D Wright, A Pannwitz, SA Bonke, JJ Baumberg, S Bonnet, L Hammarström, E Reisner
J Am Chem Soc
(2022)
144
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c01725)
Spectroelectrochemistry of Water Oxidation Kinetics in Molecular versus Heterogeneous Oxide Iridium Electrocatalysts
C Bozal-Ginesta, RR Rao, CA Mesa, Y Wang, Y Zhao, G Hu, D Antón-García, IEL Stephens, E Reisner, GW Brudvig, D Wang, JR Durrant
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2022)
144
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c02006)
Single-source Deposition of Mixed-metal Oxide Films Containing Zirconium and 3d Transition Metals for (Photo)electrocatalytic Water Oxidation
V Riesgo-Gonzalez, S Bhattacharjee, X Dong, DS Hall, V Andrei, AD Bond, CP Grey, E Reisner, DS Wright
Inorg Chem
(2022)
61
(doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00403)
An Integrated Carbon Nitride-Nickel Photocatalyst for the Amination of Aryl Halides using Sodium Azide.
A Vijeta, C Casadevall, E Reisner
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2022)
61
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202203176)
Tuning the local chemical environment of ZnSe quantum dots with dithiols towards photocatalytic CO2 reduction
CD Sahm, A Ciotti, E Mates-Torres, V Badiani, K Sokołowski, G Neri, AJ Cowan, M García-Melchor, E Reisner
Chem Sci
(2022)
13
(doi: 10.1039/d2sc00890d)
Fast CO2 hydration kinetics impair heterogeneous but improve enzymatic CO2 reduction catalysis
SJ Cobb, VM Badiani, AM Dharani, A Wagner, S Zacarias, AR Oliveira, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
Nature chemistry
(2022)
14
(doi: 10.1038/s41557-021-00880-2)
Understanding the local chemical environment of bioelectrocatalysis.
E Edwardes Moore, SJ Cobb, AM Coito, AR Oliveira, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2022)
119
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2114097119)
Elucidating Film Loss and the Role of Hydrogen Bonding of Adsorbed Redox Enzymes by Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance Analysis.
VM Badiani, SJ Cobb, A Wagner, AR Oliveira, S Zacarias, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
ACS Catal
(2022)
12
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.1c04317)

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01223 336323

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er376@cam.ac.uk

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St John's College
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
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CB2 1EW
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