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  • 2018 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2014 - Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Erwin Reisner is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Energy and Materials Science, with significant contributions to Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research topics focus on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, and Copper-based Nanomaterials and Applications.

Erwin Reisner has published extensively, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge)

Some recent papers include:

  • Towards molecular understanding of local chemical environment effects in electro- and photocatalytic CO2 reduction (2020, Nature Catalysis)
  • Photocatalytic CO2 reduction (2023, Nature Reviews Methods Primers)
  • Solar-driven reforming of solid waste for a sustainable future (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • Strategies to improve light utilization in solar fuel synthesis (2021, Nature Energy)
  • Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion (2020, Chemical Society Reviews)

Erwin Reisner regularly collaborates with several researchers including Virgil Andrei, Inês A. C. Pereira, Motiar Rahaman, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, and Santiago Rodríguez-Jiménez.

The scientist has received several awards, such as the Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2018 and the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Electro- and Solar-Driven Fuel Synthesis with First Row Transition Metal Complexes.

    Kristian E Dalle;Julien Warnan;Jane J Leung;Bertrand Reuillard

  • Towards molecular understanding of local chemical environment effects in electro- and photocatalytic CO2 reduction

    Andreas Wagner;Constantin D. Sahm;Erwin Reisner

  • Solar Hydrogen Production Using Carbon Quantum Dots and a Molecular Nickel Catalyst

    Benjamin C. M. Martindale;Georgina A. M. Hutton;Christine A. Caputo;Erwin Reisner

  • Photoreforming of Nonrecyclable Plastic Waste over a Carbon Nitride/Nickel Phosphide Catalyst.

    Taylor Uekert;Hatice Kasap;Erwin Reisner

  • Solar-driven reforming of lignocellulose to H 2 with a CdS/CdO x photocatalyst

    David W. Wakerley;Moritz F. Kuehnel;Katherine L. Orchard;Khoa H. Ly

  • Selective Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction in Water through Anchoring of a Molecular Ni Catalyst on CdS Nanocrystals

    Moritz F. Kuehnel;Katherine L. Orchard;Kristian E. Dalle;Erwin Reisner

  • Plastic waste as a feedstock for solar-driven H2 generation

    Taylor Uekert;Moritz F. Kuehnel;Moritz F. Kuehnel;David W. Wakerley;Erwin Reisner

  • Carbon dots as photosensitisers for solar-driven catalysis

    Georgina A. M. Hutton;Benjamin C. M. Martindale;Erwin Reisner

  • Interfacing nature's catalytic machinery with synthetic materials for semi-artificial photosynthesis.

    Nikolay Kornienko;Jenny Z. Zhang;Kelsey K. Sakimoto;Peidong Yang

  • Efficient and Clean Photoreduction of CO2 to CO by Enzyme-Modified TiO2 Nanoparticles Using Visible Light

    Thomas W. Woolerton;Sally Sheard;Erwin Reisner;Elizabeth Pierce

  • Visible Light-Driven H2 Production by Hydrogenases Attached to Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Nanoparticles

    Erwin Reisner;Daniel J. Powell;Christine Cavazza;Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps

  • Dye-sensitised semiconductors modified with molecular catalysts for light-driven H2 production

    Janina Willkomm;Katherine Lorraine Orchard;Anna Reynal;Ernest Pastor

  • Current challenges of modeling diiron enzyme active sites for dioxygen activation by biomimetic synthetic complexes

    Simone Friedle;Erwin Reisner;Erwin Reisner;Stephen J. Lippard

  • Floating perovskite-BiVO4 devices for scalable solar fuel production

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  • Solar-Driven Reduction of Aqueous Protons Coupled to Selective Alcohol Oxidation with a Carbon Nitride–Molecular Ni Catalyst System

    Hatice Kasap;Christine A. Caputo;Benjamin C. M. Martindale;Robert Godin

  • Solar Hydrogen Generation from Lignocellulose

    Moritz F. Kuehnel;Moritz F. Kuehnel;Erwin Reisner

  • Strategies to improve light utilization in solar fuel synthesis

    Qian Wang;Qian Wang;Chanon Pornrungroj;Stuart Linley;Erwin Reisner

  • Wiring of Photosystem II to Hydrogenase for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

    Dirk Mersch;Chong-Yong Lee;Jenny Zhenqi Zhang;Katharina Brinkert

  • Electron-transfer activated metal-based anticancer drugs

    Erwin Reisner;Erwin Reisner;Vladimir B. Arion;Bernhard K. Keppler;Armando J.L. Pombeiro

  • Dynamic electrochemical investigations of hydrogen oxidation and production by enzymes and implications for future technology

    Fraser A. Armstrong;Natalie A. Belsey;James A. Cracknell;Gabrielle Goldet

  • Multihole water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes revealed by operando spectroelectrochemistry and DFT.

    Camilo A. Mesa;Laia Francàs;Ke R. Yang;Pablo Garrido-Barros

  • Cu2O|NiOx nanocomposite as an inexpensive photocathode in photoelectrochemical water splitting

    Chia Yu Lin;Yi Hsuan Lai;Dirk Mersch;Erwin Reisner

  • Digital Color in Cellulose Nanocrystal Films

    Ahu Gümrah Dumanli;Hanne M. van der Kooij;Gen Kamita;Erwin Reisner

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Julea N. Butt
Julea N. Butt University of East Anglia
Bernhard K. Keppler
Bernhard K. Keppler University of Vienna
Dominic S. Wright
Dominic S. Wright University of Cambridge
Vladimir B. Arion
Vladimir B. Arion University of Vienna
Judy Hirst
Judy Hirst University of Cambridge
Michael A. Jakupec
Michael A. Jakupec University of Vienna
Leif Hammarström
Leif Hammarström Uppsala University
Michael Grätzel
Michael Grätzel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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