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
– Alicia joins the group as a PDRA, and Rhys (MChem) and Alex (MRes) join the lab to work on CO2 conversion and waste valorisation.
– 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!
join the team
If you are interested on working with us, please see our available positions below