ReisnerLab

Floatable carbon nitride-plastic composite for paired photocatalysis at the liquid-liquid interface Floatable photocatalysts have been demonstrated for solar fuel synthesis at the gas-liquid interface but not yet between immiscible solvents for chemi…

Can we #sandwich a photocatalyst #floating between two liquids for paired aqueous-organic synthesis?🥪☀️

Introducing liquid|solid|liquid #photocatalysis
🔵🟡🟠now out in #Chem @cellpress.bsky.social

Congrats @andrea-rogo.bsky.social and all co-authors 🎉

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ready for new #sun-(#fun)-driven #science? ☀️😎

The @reisnerlab.bsky.social is, with a renewed team ready to rock in the exciting academic year ahead 💪💪

Stay tuned for more creative works soon to be unleashed by these beautiful people ☀️⚡️🧪🌱🦠

Our first #PhD graduate completing a full journey into #biohybrids! ☀️⚡️🦠

Loads of challenges, patience, and a toolkit of skills developed from #bacteria culturing 🦠to machine learning for data analysis 🖥️

Congratulations Dr Marion Short and all the best for your future 🥳🥳

📢📢📢 We're hiring! 📢📢📢

The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️

Our group is now accepting a #postdoc position in #microbiology and #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓

Find more here:
lnkd.in/edrCTYiB

Solar Lignin Reforming with Tunable Selectivity Using a Hybrid Photocatalyst in Aqueous Solution The valorization of lignin provides an important means to access sustainable base chemicals, but current approaches are hampered by the lack of selective and scalable systems in aqueous solution. Here...

1⃣ photocatalyst☀️
1⃣ oxidation
4⃣ reductions (make your choice ♠️♥️♣️♦️)

Lignin reforming with tunable reductive selectivity: C-O cleavage, #H2, #syngas or #formate synthesis 🎯 now in @jacs.acspublications.org

Congrats Lu, Yongpeng and all co-authors👏👏

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Congratulations to the master of #carbon dots of the Reisner Lab, Dr Dongseok Kim 🥳🥳

4 years bravely spent demonstrating huge advances in the use of an emerging, #sustainable #photocatalytic material ⚫️☀️🌱⚫️

We wish you all the best for your future, Kim 🤗

#phdlife #PhDone

To expand the expertise of our group, we also welcome our new #postdoc Xinbang Wu 🤗

He'll work on one-pot #depolymerization of #polyurethane waste using #photoelectrochemical methods ♻️☀️⚡️

Besides being an excellent #scientist, Xinbang is also a passionate #guitarist 🎸🎶

One more #PhD student joining our solar team 🌞

Qingxin will explore new catalysts for #photoelectrochemical devices ☀️⚡️

When not playing with #light and #electrodes, she enjoys playing the #piano, learning #German and going to performances and #exhibitions 🎹🖼️

New start of the academic year, fresh faces to join our team 😁

Andrew is one of our new #PhD students! He'll be developing multi-#enzyme #cascade systems to produce complex products ☀️➡️➡️🌱➡️➡️🧪

Outside the lab, he enjoys woodwork, reading, tennis and playing music 🪵🎾🎵

The @reisnerlab.bsky.social wishes to honour and acknowledge the achievements of black people in the occasion of the #BlackHistory month ✊⚫️

Thanks to our PhD student Kay for sharing some insightful reflections on how much #diversity is powerful in #science 🤝🥼

Our favourite #bioengineer Irina is leaving our group for exciting new beginnings 🤗

Irina was awarded an Innovate UK grant for her start-up, Cambridge Molecular Computers Ltd, bridging #DNA programmability and #bioinformatics 🦠💻

All the best for your new adventure, Irina 💪

Solar-powered method lights the way to a ‘de-fossilised’ chemical industry Researchers have demonstrated a new and sustainable way to make the chemicals that are the basis of thousands of products – from plastics to cosmetics – we use

Thank you also to @universitypress.cambridge.org for the nice press release
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Semi-artificial leaf interfacing organic semiconductors and enzymes for solar chemical synthesis Photoelectrochemical biohybrids combine the advantages of light-harvesting semiconductors and biocatalysts into a single compact device. However, limi…

#OPV and #enzymes combined in a semi-artificial leaf for selective #CO2-to-#formate conversion ☀️🍃

Read here our latest work by @celineyeungws.bsky.social and Yongpeng Liu on Joule by @cellpress.bsky.social 🎉🎉

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice to re-connect with the University #alumni community 🤝

Erwin gave a talk to update @cam.ac.uk graduates on the exciting #science that our Department keeps fostering 🧪 🚀

Covalent Organic Framework and Carbon Nitride Composite for Scalable Solar Reforming A modular composite, containing a covalent organic framework, indium tin oxide, carbon nitride and nickel based molecular catalyst, enables solar reforming under neutral aqueous conditions, convertin....

#COF and CNx join forces for scalable #photoreforming 💪🍃

Check our latest work led by Suvendu on covalent organic frameworks-carbon nitride Z-scheme for the photoreforming of #plastic and #biomass ☀️

doi.org/10.1002/adma...

Enzymatic Flow Electrolyzer for CO2 and Waste Comproportionation to Formate and Its Use in Photocatalytic Alkene Hydrocarboxylation A flow electrolyzer employing formate dehydrogenase on a porous TiO2-carbon felt cathode is developed for paired electrolysis of CO2 and waste (plastic and biomass) to produce formate. The electrolyz...

Design a semi-artificial flow #electrolyzer⚡️, converge #CO2 and #plastic into #formate➡️⛽️⬅️, then use it as a C1 block for #light-driven #hydrocarboxylation💡🧪

That's the latest work by Beverly and Santiago, just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳🥳

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Connecting with our #alumni🔗

Carla Casadevall (2020-2022) enthusiastically worked on #carbon-based materials for #photocatalysis 💪🌱☀️

Now group leader at @iciq.org, her mission is turning sunlight into chemicals with nanoreactors 🔍

Here her #memories of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social

#Connecting with our #alumni 🔗

We remember Qian Wang for her many contributions as a postdoc in our group (2018-2021) 🫴☀️

Today, she's happily leading her own #research group as a full #professor at @en.nagoya-u.ac.jp
🌸

Here are some of her #memories of the
@reisnerlab.bsky.social

Great week enjoying the breeze on Lake Como in Italy at the International School on Material Interfaces for Engineering Living Systems, where Glenn presented his results on Organic #Semiconductors-#Bacteria #Biohybrids 🥤🦠☀️

It was great to celebrate 15 years of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social with our alumni! 🥳

Inspiring stories of their paths since they left our #sun-driven lab in Cambridge at our symposium in St John's College and fun at our Sunday #BBQ ☀️🍔

Can't wait to reunite a wider #family of alumni next time!

Great opportunity to work at the interface between #microbiology, #photocatalysis and #electrocatalysis as a project coordinator of our recently EIC-funded #sunlight-to-food project ☀️➡️🍔 led by @biophotoelectro.bsky.social

Finally, the final plenary talk speaker, and a notable member of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social received the Tilden Prize from the @rsc.org 🏆

Congratulations, Erwin 👏👏🥳
#ISF2025

And here is a beautiful collage of poster presenters 📊
Nice to see the happy faces of our PhD students Afreen, Ariffin, Beverly, and Sampurna 😁😁😁

@rsc.org #ISF2025

Recently graduated, jointly supervised by our and @biophotoelectro.bsky.social's lab, Rachel Egan summarises her thorough PhD exploration on wired photosynthetic #cyanobacterias on #electrodes 👏👏🦠⚡️

@rsc.org #ISF2025

One of our #bio-hybrid enthusiast alumni, Shafeer Kalathil, now Assistant Professor at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, giving updates on his independent research since he left our lab 🦠☀️

@rsc.org #ISF2025

Now lecturer at @qmul.bsky.social, Lin Su still finds it hard to detach from the @reisnerlab.bsky.social ❤️
He joined us to share his experience with E. coli and artificial #photosynthesis 🦠🍃🌞

@rsc.org #ISF2025

#Bacteria 🦠 and #light 💡 team up to convert #CO2 into complex products in the story of Santiago Rodríguez-Jiménez's committed research in our lab

@rsc.org #ISF2025

A colourful, enthusiastic journey into the secret life of #enzymes on #semiconductors unravelled by our Yongpeng Liu 🚀

@rsc.org #ISF2025

One more member of the early days of the lab, Moritz Kühnel, now Professor at @unihohenheim.bsky.social, showcasing his latest results on O2-tolerant #photocatalysis for #enzymatic and bio-driven #chemical conversion 🎈☀️♻️

@rsc.org #ISF2025

One of the earliest members of the lab, Chia-Yu Lin, now professor at National Cheng Kung University, giving insights into iodide-enhanced
#CO2RR to C2+ products.

@rsc.org #ISF2025