ReisnerLab

It's the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧑‍🔬
Here are some wonderful smiles from a team of extraordinarily motivated and talented scientists in the @reisnerlab.bsky.social ☀️ 🌱
#Science is for everyone! 🎨
#IDWGS

Congrats to our Alumni David Wakerly and Sarah Lamaison for having their start-up #Dioxycle nominated in the Impact/100 List by the Norrsken Foundation 👏👏

#Electrolytic #carbon #upcycling from the lab to the real world made possible 💪♻️📈

www.norrsken.org/impact100

Floating solar technologies for sustainable chemical synthesis on open water - Nature Chemical Engineering Solar fuels synthesis is a promising technology for net-zero chemicals production, but capacity is inherently tied to area, and water is often required as a reagent, making land-based deployment costl...

#Floatable materials for #sustainable #chemical synthesis are just emerging, with lots of potential for deployment on open #water streams 🌊☀️⛵️

Learn more in our Perspective led by Stuart and Chanon, now out in @natchemeng.nature.com 📢📢

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢📢📢 We're hiring! 📢📢📢

The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for a Research Assistant to provide practical and technical laboratory support to our research 🧑‍🔬🔧

Find more here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

SOLARSPOON has a PDRA position available in Cambridge, UK!

More info and apply here⤵️⤵️⤵️

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

@biophotoelectro.bsky.social @reisnerlab.bsky.social
#PDRA #SOLARSPOON

Some highlights on semi-artificial #photosynthesis strategies from our Yongpeng Liu at the 3rd #SolarChemicalsNetwork symposium in Southampton ☀️🍃👏👏👏

Congratulations to Dr. Chanon Pornrungroj 🎉🎉 27th #PhD graduate of the Reisner Lab, on receiving the Excellent Dissertation #Award 🏆
(1st Place, Chemical Science Field) from the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT).
Selected from ~300 PhD theses nationwide 👏👏👏

Our traditional End of Year #symposium and #dinner is an unmissable event to reflect, thank, and appreciate what our #lab means to each of us🫴♥️🕯️

The @reisnerlab.bsky.social wishes everyone a joyous winter break and gets ready for exciting creative #science to see the light in 2026 🎉🎉🎉

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