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#Science is for everyone! The @ReisnerLab wishes to celebrate all colours in science in this #Pride Month🏳️‍🌈☀️

Thanks to @cp-chemcircularity.bsky.social and Qian Wang for highlighting the works by Kay and @andrea-rogo.bsky.social on #acid plastic #photoreforming and liquid-solid-liquid #photocatalysis, published in @cp-joule.bsky.social and @cp-chem.bsky.social 💡☀️🧪🔋 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was a great pleasure attending @lrese-epfl.bsky.social Prof. Sophia Haussener's #talk at @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social on her pioneering work on concentrated #solar light for #photoelectro and #thermochemical technologies☀️🔍⛽️ Inspiring explorations from #degradation studies to #reactor design💡

It's time for one more #PhD wrap-up 🥳🥳 Congrats to Kay, making justice with his #acid-catalysed #plastic depolymerisation and #photoreforming in a world previously dominated by alkali ♻️☀️ Congratulations Dr Kwarteng and all the best for your future 👏👏👏

A semi-artificial #leaf to power E. #coli's growth with no applied bias ☀️🍃🦠 Check out the latest work by Lin and @celineyeungws.bsky.social, now out in @jacs.acspublications.org 🎉🎉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Toward Solar-Powered Growth of Autotrophic Escherichia coli Using Photoelectrochemistry

Integrated coupling of renewable energy sources with microbial CO2 fixation remains a major challenge in carbon-neutral biomanufacturing. Here, a biohybrid design is presented that combines a semiarti...

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Designing #air-tolerant systems for #H2 generation from #biomass is challenging, given the high reactivity of O2 under reducing conditions 🌬️🪵☀️ Check out the latest work by Kim leveraging deep eutectic solvents now out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org 🎉🎉 doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...

Air-tolerant solar reforming of pre-treated biomass and plastics in viscous sustainable solvents

We report an air-tolerant solar reforming (SR) system for the valorisation of pre-treated biomass and plastic waste streams. This process operates in low O2-diffusivity solvents such as the robust dee...

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The @reisnerlab.bsky.social across all its generations reunited at the Gordon Research Conference on Renewable Energy - #Solar Fuels in Lucca, Italy ⛰️🍝🌺 More than 15 years of #memories, #people, and #stories of a solar-driven journey☀️and counting ...

Using #plastic as a substrate for #H2 evolution is a wonderful pathway to #solar #fuels ☀️⛽️, but what about using H for transfer #hydrogenation towards solar #chemicals☀️🧪? Check out the latest work by Kay now out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Photocatalytic Transfer Hydrogenation Using Plastic Hydrolysates as Hydrogen Donor

Plastic waste is transformed into functional amines via solar-driven transfer hydrogenation. Soluble monomers from acid hydrolysis of waste polymers serve as a hydrogen (electron/proton)donors in the...

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Our @trincollcam.bsky.social members Chen and Qingxin attented the 9th Annual Chemistry Meal, bringing together all the college #Chemistry community 🍷🧪 Chen also gave a talk on her recent results on advanced #electrochemical #solar #synthesis ☀️🗣️👏

Extending #light absorption for #semiartificial #photosynthesis with a robust #semiconductor couple: BaTaO2N/CNx 💡 Check the latest work by Ming and @YongpengLiu now out in @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Interfacing Broad-Spectrum Semiconductors with Hydrogenases for Semi-Artificial Solar Reforming of Cellulose

Semiartificial photosynthesis offers a promising route for solar chemistry, but most biohybrid systems rely on UV or blue-light excitation, are limited by inefficient interfacial charge transfer, or r...

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When making #biodiesel, you end up with two byproducts in two liquid phases 🟠🔵 Why not #upcycling both with a #photocatalyst #floating in between? 🟡☀️ Liquid|solid|liquid #domino photocatalysis by @andrea-rogo.bsky.social now out in @ees-journals.rsc.org #EES doi.org/10.1039/D5EE...

Biphasic valorization of byproducts from biodiesel synthesis using floating photochemo-enzymatic domino catalysis

Sustainable chemical synthesis requires a cradle-to-cradle design strategy to upcycle waste streams with optimal atom and step economy. Here, we demonstrate the full valorization of vegetable oil usin...

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Soleh and Beverly, our representation at the @rscsustainability.rsc.org #conference on #Biotechnology for #Sustainability had a wonderful and productive time at the headquarters of the @rsc.org in London 🦠📈😁

#Bacteria and #semiconductors have teamed up in many occasions giving rise to semiartificial #photosynthesis🦠☀️ We have summarised the most recent developments in our new @pubs.acs.org ChemRev 📚 Congrats to Glenn and Liu's group at National University Singapore (NUS)🎉🎉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Designing Microbe–Semiconductor Interfaces for Semibiological Photosynthesis

Integrating semiconductors with microorganisms is attracting significant attention as a sustainable platform for solar-to-chemical conversion. This semibiological design combines the excellent light h...

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#Plastic #photoreforming typically requires alkaline #hydrolysis, leading to waste of stoichiometric reactants. Ever thought of using #acids instead? ☀️🔋 Check out our new approach developed by Kay now out in Joule by @cellpress.bsky.social 🥳🥳 www.cell.com/joule/fullte...

Solar reforming of plastics using acid-catalyzed depolymerization

Acid-catalyzed depolymerization of waste plastics using recycled sulfuric acid from spent lead-acid batteries produces ethylene glycol, which is selectively photoreformed over an acid-stable metal sul...

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📢📢We're opening a position for 1 home (UK) PhD student starting in our group in October 2026📢📢 Apply before the 14th May 🗓️ Please follow the instructions at this link: pgapp.ch.cam.ac.uk/how-apply

At @nanoge.org #MATSUS26 in Barcelona, Spain, @andrea-rogo.bsky.social presented our recent developments in #floatable materials for liquid-solid-liquid #photocatalysis ☀️ More to come soon ... 📢

Time for #poster showcase📊at the Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing (SCHEMA) Conference 2026 📢 Here @afreennas.bsky.social and Kay presenting their research on #photoelectrochemistry for chemical synthesis and plastic #photoreforming ☀️

It was all yellow🟡again 🥳 Our annual Open Day at @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social, part of the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social, is our unmissable appointment with families, kids and all science-enthusiasts! A #sunny day showing how #light and #chemistry together are great ☀️🧪 #outreach #scicomm

#Organic #semiconductors meet #enzymes and #bacteria in our most recent photocatalytic #biohybrid system 💡🦠Now out in @jacs.acspublications.org Congrats to Glenn and all co-authors 👏👏👏 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Organic Semiconducting Hydrogel with Integrated Microbes and Enzymes for Selective Solar CO2 Conversion

Integrating synthetic light-harvesting materials with biological CO2-fixing catalysts offers a promising route to efficient and selective solar-to-chemical conversion under mild conditions. However, p...

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Carbon nitride #photoanodes are known for their terrible #stability. Have you ever used them under #concentrated #sunlight? 🧐 Carolina has, and found a remarkable current retention even at high applied bias. Check her work now out in @jacs.acspublications.org 🥳🥳 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Stabilizing Carbon Nitride Photoanodes for Unassisted Alcohol Reforming Coupled to CO2 Reduction under Concentrated Sunlight

Carbon nitride is a scalable and low-cost organic semiconductor with promise for use in photoelectrochemical (PEC) devices, but its poor stability limits its practical use. This study establishes the ...

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A warm welcome to Samir Chattopadhyay to our group🥳 Samir will work on #polymer-molecular catalyst hybrid systems for #electrochemical and #photochemical #CO2 reduction reactions in heterogeneous environments💡 Outside the lab, Samir enjoys travelling ✈️ and cycling 🚴

Congrats to @andrea-rogo.bsky.social for winning the @rsc.org Sustainable Energy & Fuels #poster #prize 📊🏆 at the Applied #Catalysis for the #Circular #Economy III conference, for his work on Liquid|Solid|Liquid #photocatalysis 👏👏 Check it out in Chem by @cellpress.bsky.social bit.ly/40YWLxF