Semi-Artificial Photosynthesis with Wired Enzymes

Project Information

MatEnSAP

Grant agreement ID: 682833

DOI 10.3030/682833

Project closed

EC signature date 23 April 2016

Start date 1 October 2016

End date 31 March 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 960 289,00

EU contribution € 1 960 289,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (41)

Comproportionation of CO2 and Cellulose to Formate Using a Floating Semiconductor-Enzyme Photoreforming Catalyst

Author(s): Erwin Lam, Melanie Miller, Stuart Linley, Rita R. Manuel, Inês A. C. Pereira, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202215894

Disparity of Cytochrome Utilization in Anodic and Cathodic Extracellular Electron Transfer Pathways of Geobacter sulfurreducens Biofilms

Author(s): Nina Heidary, Nikolay Kornienko, Shafeer Kalathil, Xin Fang, Khoa H. Ly, Heather F. Greer, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 142/11, 2020, Page(s) 5194-5203, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13077

Integration of a Hydrogenase in a Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrode for Tandem Solar Water Splitting

Author(s): Esther Edwardes Moore, Virgil Andrei, Sónia Zacarias, Inês A. C. Pereira, Erwin Reisner
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, Issue 5/1, 2019, Page(s) 232-237, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b02437

Photosynthesis re-wired on the pico-second timescale

Author(s): Tomi K. Baikie, Laura T. Wey, Joshua M. Lawrence, Hitesh Medipally, Erwin Reisner, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Richard H. Friend, Christopher J. Howe, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, Jenny Z. Zhang
Published in: Nature, 2023, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05763-9

Thermoelectric−Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting under Concentrated Solar Irradiation

Author(s): Chanon Pornrungroj, Virgil Andrei, and Erwin Reisner
Published in: Journal of the Americal Chemical Society, 2023, ISSN 1520-5126
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c01892

A Semi-artificial Photoelectrochemical Tandem Leaf with a CO2-to-Formate Efficiency Approaching 1%

Author(s): Esther Edwardes Moore, Virgil Andrei, Ana Rita Oliveira, Ana Margarida Coito,InÞs A. C. Pereira, and Erwin Reisner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202110867

A three-dimensional hybrid electrode with electroactive microbes for efficient electrogenesis and chemical synthesis

Author(s): Xin Fang, Shafeer Kalathil, Giorgio Divitini, Qian Wang, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/9, 2020, Page(s) 5074-5080, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1913463117

Reversible and Selective Interconversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide into Formate by a Semiartificial Formate Hydrogenlyase Mimic

Author(s): Katarzyna P. Sokol, William E. Robinson, Ana R. Oliveira, Sonia Zacarias, Chong-Yong Lee, Christopher Madden, Arnau Bassegoda, Judy Hirst, Inês A. C. Pereira, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 141/44, 2019, Page(s) 17498-17502, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09575

Engineering Electro- and Photocatalytic Carbon Materials for CO2 Reduction by Formate Dehydrogenase

Author(s): Vivek M. Badiani, Carla Casadevall, Melanie Miller, Samuel J. Cobb, Rita R. Manuel, Inês A. C. Pereira, and ErwinReisner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, ISSN 1520-5126
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c04529

Solar Panel Technologies for Light-to-Chemical Conversion

Author(s): Virgil Andrei, Qian Wang, Taylor Uekert, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, and Erwin Reisner
Published in: Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022, ISSN 0001-4842
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00477

Carboxysome-Inspired Electrocatalysis using Enzymes for the Reduction of CO2 at Low Concentrations

Author(s): Samuel J. Cobb, Azim M. Dharani, Ana Rita Oliveira, Inês A. C. Pereira, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202218782

Photoelectrochemical CO2-to-fuel conversion with simultaneous plastic reforming

Author(s): Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Motiar Rahaman. Virgil Andrei, Melanie Miller, Santiago Rodríguez-Jiménez, Erwin Lam, Chanon Pornrungroj, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Synthesis, 2023, ISSN 2731-0582
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.17863/cam.88883

Bacteria–photocatalyst sheet for sustainable carbon dioxide utilization

Author(s): Qian Wang, Shafeer Kalathil, Chanon Pornrungroj, Constantin D. Sahm, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Catalysis, 2022, ISSN 2520-1158
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-022-00817-z

Photoelectrochemical hybrid cell for unbiased CO2 reduction coupled to alcohol oxidation

Author(s): Daniel Antón-García, Esther Edwardes Moore, Mark A. Bajada, Annika Eisenschmidt, Ana R. Oliveira, Inês A. C. Pereira, Julien Warnan and Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Synthesis, 2022, ISSN 2731-0582
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s44160-021-00003-2

Floating perovskite-BiVO4 devices for scalable solar fuel production

Author(s): Virgil Andrei, Geani M. Ucoski, et al.
Published in: Nature, 2022, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04978-6

Photoelectrochemistry of Photosystem II in Vitro vs in Vivo

Author(s): Jenny Z. Zhang, Paolo Bombelli, Katarzyna P. Sokol, Andrea Fantuzzi, A. William Rutherford, Christopher J. Howe, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 140/1, 2017, Page(s) 6-9, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08563

Tuning Product Selectivity for Aqueous CO 2 Reduction with a Mn(bipyridine)-pyrene Catalyst Immobilized on a Carbon Nanotube Electrode

Author(s): Bertrand Reuillard, Khoa H. Ly, Timothy E. Rosser, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Ingo Zebger, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 139/41, 2017, Page(s) 14425-14435, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06269

Oxidation-State-Dependent Binding Properties of the Active Site in a Mo-Containing Formate Dehydrogenase

Author(s): William E. Robinson, Arnau Bassegoda, Erwin Reisner, Judy Hirst
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 139/29, 2017, Page(s) 9927-9936, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03958

Photoelectrocatalytic H 2 evolution in water with molecular catalysts immobilised on p-Si via a stabilising mesoporous TiO 2 interlayer

Author(s): Jane J. Leung, Julien Warnan, Dong Heon Nam, Jenny Z. Zhang, Janina Willkomm, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 8/7, 2017, Page(s) 5172-5180, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c7sc01277b

High Performance Reduction of H 2 O 2 with an Electron Transport Decaheme Cytochrome on a Porous ITO Electrode

Author(s): Bertrand Reuillard, Khoa H. Ly, Peter Hildebrandt, Lars J. C. Jeuken, Julea N. Butt, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 139/9, 2017, Page(s) 3324-3327, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b12437

High Performance Reduction of H2O2 with an Electron Transport Decaheme Cytochrome on a Porous ITO Electrode

Author(s): Reuillard, Bertrand; Ly, Khoa H.; Hildebrandt, Peter; Jeuken, Lars J. C.; Butt, Julea N.; Reisner, Erwin
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 3, 2017, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.8140

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

Author(s): Kristian E. Dalle, Julien Warnan, Jane J. Leung, Bertrand Reuillard, Isabell S. Karmel, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Chemical Reviews, Issue 119/4, 2018, Page(s) 2752-2875, ISSN 0009-2665
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00392

Bias-free photoelectrochemical water splitting with photosystem II on a dye-sensitized photoanode wired to hydrogenase

Author(s): Katarzyna P. Sokol, William E. Robinson, Julien Warnan, Nikolay Kornienko, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Adrian Ruff, Jenny Z. Zhang, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Energy, Issue 3/11, 2018, Page(s) 944-951, ISSN 2058-7546
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-018-0232-y

Photoreduction of CO 2 with a Formate Dehydrogenase Driven by Photosystem II Using a Semi-artificial Z-Scheme Architecture

Author(s): Katarzyna P. Sokol, William E. Robinson, Ana R. Oliveira, Julien Warnan, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Adrian Ruff, Inês A. C. Pereira, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 140/48, 2018, Page(s) 16418-16422, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10247

Solar Water Splitting with a Hydrogenase Integrated in Photoelectrochemical Tandem Cells

Author(s): Dong Heon Nam, Jenny Z. Zhang, Virgil Andrei, Nikolay Kornienko, Nina Heidary, Andreas Wagner, Kenichi Nakanishi, Katarzyna P. Sokol, Barnaby Slater, Ingo Zebger, Stephan Hofmann, Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps, Chan Beum Park, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 57/33, 2018, Page(s) 10595-10599, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201805027

Interfacing Formate Dehydrogenase with Metal Oxides for the Reversible Electrocatalysis and Solar-Driven Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

Author(s): Melanie Miller, William E. Robinson, Ana Rita Oliveira, Nina Heidary, Nikolay Kornienko, Julien Warnan, Inês A. C. Pereira, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 58/14, 2019, Page(s) 4601-4605, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201814419

Interfacing nature’s catalytic machinery with synthetic materials for semi-artificial photosynthesis

Author(s): Nikolay Kornienko, Jenny Z. Zhang, Kelsey K. Sakimoto, Peidong Yang, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Nanotechnology, Issue 13/10, 2018, Page(s) 890-899, ISSN 1748-3387
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-018-0251-7

Advancing Techniques for Investigating the Enzyme–Electrode Interface

Author(s): Nikolay Kornienko, Khoa H. Ly, William E. Robinson, Nina Heidary, Jenny Z. Zhang, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019, ISSN 0001-4842
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00087

Oxygenic Photoreactivity in Photosystem II Studied by Rotating Ring Disk Electrochemistry

Author(s): Nikolay Kornienko, Jenny Z. Zhang, Katarzyna P. Sokol, Sarah Lamaison, Andrea Fantuzzi, Rienk van Grondelle, A. William Rutherford, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 140/51, 2018, Page(s) 17923-17931, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08784

Structure–Activity Relationships of Hierarchical Three-Dimensional Electrodes with Photosystem II for Semiartificial Photosynthesis

Author(s): Xin Fang, Katarzyna P. Sokol, Nina Heidary, Tarek A. Kandiel, Jenny Z. Zhang, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 19/3, 2019, Page(s) 1844-1850, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04935

Solar-driven reduction of aqueous CO2 with a cobalt bis(terpyridine)-based photocathode

Author(s): Jane J. Leung, Julien Warnan, Khoa H. Ly, Nina Heidary, Dong Heon Nam, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Catalysis, Issue 2/4, 2019, Page(s) 354-365, ISSN 2520-1158
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0254-2

Catalysis by design: development of a bifunctional water splitting catalyst through an operando measurement directed optimization cycle

Author(s): Nikolay Kornienko, Nina Heidary, Giannantonio Cibin, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 9/24, 2018, Page(s) 5322-5333, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8sc01415a

Protein film electrochemical EPR spectroscopy as a technique to investigate redox reactions in biomolecules

Author(s): Kaltum Abdiaziz, Enrico Salvadori, Katarzyna P. Sokol, Erwin Reisner, Maxie M. Roessler
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 55/60, 2019, Page(s) 8840-8843, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc03212f

Bias-free solar syngas production by integrating a molecular cobalt catalyst with perovskite–BiVO4 tandems

Author(s): Virgil Andrei, Bertrand Reuillard, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Materials, 2019, ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0501-6

Heme ligation and redox chemistry in two bacterial thiosulfate dehydrogenase (TsdA) enzymes

Author(s): Leon P. Jenner, Julia M. Kurth, Sebastian van Helmont, Katarzyna P. Sokol, Erwin Reisner, Christiane Dahl, Justin M Bradley, Julea N. Butt, Myles R. Cheesman
Published in: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019, Page(s) jbc.RA119.010084, ISSN 0021-9258
Publisher: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc.
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.010084

Understanding How the Rate of C–H Bond Cleavage Affects Formate Oxidation Catalysis by a Mo-Dependent Formate Dehydrogenase

Author(s): William E. Robinson, Arnau Bassegoda, James N. Blaza, Erwin Reisner, Judy Hirst
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 142/28, 2020, Page(s) 12226-12236, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03574

Microbial Fermentation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Waste for the Production of Chemicals or Electricity

Author(s): Shafeer Kalathil, Melanie Miller, and Erwin Reisner
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202211057

Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion

Author(s): Xin Fang, Shafeer Kalathil, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Chemical Society Reviews, Issue 49/14, 2020, Page(s) 4926-4952, ISSN 0306-0012
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00496c

Understanding the local chemical environment of bioelectrocatalysis

Author(s): Esther Edwardes Moore, Samuel J. Cobb, Ana Margarida Coito, Ana Rita Oliveira, Ines A. C. Pereira, and Erwin Reisner
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2114097119

Fast CO2 hydration kinetics impair heterogeneous but improve enzymatic CO2 reduction catalysis

Author(s): Samuel J. Cobb, Vivek M. Badiani, Azim M. Dharani, Andreas Wagner, Sónia Zacarias, Ana Rita Oliveira, Inês A. C. Pereira and Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Chemistry, 2022, ISSN 1755-4349
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00880-2

Advancing photosystem II photoelectrochemistry for semi-artificial photosynthesis

Author(s): Jenny Z. Zhang, Erwin Reisner
Published in: Nature Reviews Chemistry, Issue 4/1, 2020, Page(s) 6-21, ISSN 2397-3358
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41570-019-0149-4