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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

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
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2022)
144,
9399
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c01725)
Spectroelectrochemistry of Water Oxidation Kinetics in Molecularversus 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,
8454
(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
– Inorganic Chemistry
(2022)
61,
6223
(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,
e202203176
(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
– Chemical science
(2022)
13,
5988
(doi: 10.1039/d2sc00890d)
Fast CO<sub>2</sub> hydration kinetics impair heterogeneous but improve enzymatic CO<sub>2</sub> reduction catalysis.
SJ Cobb, VM Badiani, AM Dharani, A Wagner, S Zacarias, AR Oliveira, IAC Pereira, E Reisner
– Nature chemistry
(2022)
14,
417
(doi: 10.1038/s41557-021-00880-2)
Polygenic sex determination produces modular sex polymorphism in an African cichlid fish
E Edwardes Moore, S Cobb, AM Coito, AR Oliveira, I Pereira, E Reisner
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2022)
119,
ARTN e2118574119
(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,
1886
(doi: 10.1021/acscatal.1c04317)
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
(2022)
119,
e2114097119
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2114097119)
Photoelectrochemical hybrid cell for unbiased CO2 reduction coupled to alcohol oxidation
D Antón-García, E Edwardes Moore, MA Bajada, A Eisenschmidt, AR Oliveira, IAC Pereira, J Warnan, E Reisner
– Nature Synthesis
(2022)
1,
77
(doi: 10.1038/s44160-021-00003-2)
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er376@cam.ac.uk

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