Welcome to the CreissenLab

We convert waste materials and greenhouse gases into chemicals and fuels using renewable electricity.
The products generated can replace fossil fuels, providing a sustainable route to combat climate change.

Recent News

– Our article on Low-Voltage Acidic CO₂ Reduction has been accepted in ChemElectroChem – click here for the article

– Our Review article on Tandem CO₂ Electrolysis has been accepted in Nanoscale – click here for the accepted article

– Keele will host #ECat23 with nanoGE in December 2023. More information can be found here: https://www.nanoge.org/ECAT23/home

– Bethany Jones and Stephen Lewis join the lab as MChem students working on CO₂ conversion and organic oxidation reactions. Lewis Cousins starts his PhD at Keele!

– Erik Buren joins the lab as a summer student funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry to look into novel oxidation reactions in flow conditions.

– Alessandro’s paper on boosting CO₂ utilisation by reducing, releasing, and recycling, is out now in ACS Energy Letters – Link

– The lab was awarded a Royal Society Research Grant to develop catalysts for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion.

– Book Chapter on Molecular Catalysts Immobilised on Photocathodes for Solar Fuel Generation published in ‘Recent Developments in Functional Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis’ – Link

– The lab was awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry Enablement grant to kickstart research into alternative anode reactions.

– Modinat Abdussalam joins the group as an MRes student to work on electrochemical oxidation reactions.

– Finley Lloyd and Lewis Cousins join the group as MChem students. They will be working on CO₂ conversion and organic waste oxidation.

– Our recent comment on single-atom catalysts was featured in the Editors’ Highlights of Nature Communications – Link to comment

– Start of the CreissenLab! We are starting our research in sustainable electrocatalysis at Keele – watch this space!