Dr Marc Etherington

Assistant Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

Biography

My name is Marc Etherington and I am currently an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University (and Junior Research Fellow at Hatfield College, Durham University) leading a group researching the photophysical and functional properties of organic semiconductors. I am also an academic visitor at Durham University, working with Prof. Andy Monkman and continuing our joint work and projects on novel materials that exhibit thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

Before my VCSF, I worked in the OEM group at Durham University from March 2015 as a research associate on two different projects (PHEBE and HyperOLED).

I'm originally from Stockton-on-Tees and as such, I am local to the area. I did my undergraduate MPhys degree at Grey College, Durham University from 2007-2011. This included a fourth-year project under the supervision of Prof. Andy Monkman.

After graduating in 2011 I went up to Cambridge to undertake my PhD in Physics at Clare College under the supervision of Prof. Neil Greenham. The title of my thesis was 'Magnetic field effects on the triplet states in organic semiconductor devices'.

Alongside my membership of Hatfield College SCR I am also a member of the SCRs at University College and Grey College.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Excited state spectroscopy
Organic light-emitting diodes
Proton transfer
Quinine
Thermally-activated delayed fluorescence
Charge-transfer states
Organic photovoltaics

Key Publications

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Persistent Dimer Emission in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials, Etherington, M., Kukhta, N., Higginbotham, H., Danos, A., Bismillah, A., Graves, D., McGonigal, P., Haase, N., Morherr, A., Batsanov, A., Pflumm, C., Bhalla, V., Bryce, M., Monkman, A. 2 May 2019, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Excited-State Aromatic Interactions in the Aggregation-Induced Emission of Molecular Rotors, Sturala, J., Etherington, M., Bismillah, A., Higginbotham, H., Trewby, W., Aguilar, J., Bromley, E., Avestro, A., Monkman, A., McGonigal, P. 13 Dec 2017, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Revealing the spin-vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence, Etherington, M., Gibson, J., Higginbotham, H., Penfold, T., Monkman, A. 30 Nov 2016, In: Nature Communications
Suppression of Dexter transfer by covalent encapsulation for efficient matrix-free narrowband deep blue hyperfluorescent OLEDs, Cho, H., Congrave, D., Gillett, A., Montanaro, S., Francis, H., Riesgo-Gonzalez, V., Ye, J., Chowdry, R., Zeng, W., Etherington, M., Royakkers, J., Millington, O., Bond, A., Plasser, F., Frost, J., Grey, C., Rao, A., Friend, R., Greenham, N., Bronstein, H. Apr 2024, In: Nature Materials
A Modular Approach to Tuning Emissive N-Quinolyl Through-Space Charge Transfer States Using sp3-Scaffolds, Watson, J., Pollard, R., Sims, M., Etherington, M., Knowles, J. 14 Nov 2024, In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
From phosphorescence to delayed fluorescence in one step: tuning photophysical properties by quaternisation of an sp2-hybridised nitrogen atom, Klimash, A., Prlj, A., Yufit, D., Mallick, A., Curchod, B., McGonigal, P., Skabara, P., Etherington, M. 7 Jul 2022, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Extended Conjugation Attenuates the Quenching of Aggregation-Induced Emitters by Photocyclization Pathways, Turley, A., Saha, P., Danos, A., Bismillah, A., Monkman, A., Yufit, D., Curchod, B., Etherington, M., McGonigal, P. 13 Jun 2022, In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Simultaneous enhancement of thermally activated delayed fluorescence and photoluminescence quantum yield via homoconjugation, Montanaro, S., Pander, P., Mistry, J., Elsegood, M., Teat, S., Bond, A., Wright, I., Congrave, D., Etherington, M. 28 Apr 2022, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Dinuclear platinum(ii) complexes featuring rigidly linked Pt(NCN)X units: the effect of X = SCN− in favouring low-energy, excimer-like luminescence, Salthouse, R., Dikova, Y., Etherington, M., Williams, J. 28 Nov 2024, In: New Journal of Chemistry
Covalently linked pyrene antennas for optically dense yet aggregation-resistant light-harvesting systems, Salah, L., Makhseed, S., Ghazal, B., Abdel Nazeer, A., Etherington, M., Ponseca jr., C., Li, C., Monkman, A., Danos, A., Shuaib, A. 28 Sep 2023, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Professional Activity

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Visiting an external academic institution: Durham University 2020
Visiting an external academic institution: Kuwait University 2019
Membership of board: Durham University (External organisation) 2019
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Maximising the rISC 2018
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Maximising the rISC 2016

PGR Supervision

Will Tetlow New Synthetic Routes for the Preparation of Chalcogenide Perovskite Material Start Date: 14/06/2024
Ruth Pollard Tuning Photoluminescence through Quaternisation of sp² Nitrogen Atoms in Organic Frameworks Start Date: 01/10/2021 End Date: 17/10/2025
Aidan Matthews Using cage linkers to capture the fundamentals of charge transfer for use in organic light-emitting diodes Introduction Start Date: 01/10/2023
Ruth Pollard Tuning Photoluminescence through Quaternisation of sp² Nitrogen Atoms in Organic Frameworks Start Date: 01/10/2021
Will Tetlow New Synthetic Routes for the Preparation of Chalcogenide Perovskite Material Start Date: 14/06/2024 End Date: 17/10/2025
Aidan Matthews Using cage linkers to capture the fundamentals of charge transfer for use in organic light-emitting diodes Introduction Start Date: 01/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025