Dr Marc Etherington

Assistant Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

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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Suppressing Dimer Formation by Increasing Conformational Freedom in Multi-Carbazole Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters, Salah, L., Etherington, M., Shuaib, A., Danos, A., Nazeer, A., Ghazal, B., Prlj, A., Turley, A., Mallick, A., McGonigal, P., Curchod, B., Monkman, A., Makhseed, S. 7 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Beyond the Single Molecule, Etherington, M. 18 Sep 2020, In: Frontiers in Chemistry
Modulation of Charge Transfer by N-Alkylation to Control Photoluminescence Energy and Quantum Yield, Turley, A., Danos, A., Prlj, A., Monkman, A., Curchod, B., McGonigal, P., Etherington, M. 21 Jul 2020, In: Chemical Science
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
Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters, Etherington, M., Franchello, F., Gibson, J., Northey, T., Santos, J., Ward, J., Higginbotham, H., Data, P., Kurowska, A., Dos Santos, P., Graves, D., Batsanov, A., Dias, F., Bryce, M., Penfold, T., Monkman, A. 13 Apr 2017, In: Nature Communications
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
Ultrahigh Efficiency Fluorescent Single and Bi-Layer Organic Light Emitting Diodes: The Key Role of Triplet Fusion, Chiang, C., Kimyonok, A., Etherington, M., Griffiths, G., Jankus, V., Turksoy, F., Monkman, A. 11 Feb 2013, In: Advanced Functional Materials

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

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 Developing fluorescence standards to discover the organic light-emitting diode and organic photovoltaic materials of the future Start Date: 01/10/2021

Qualifications

Physics PhD July 16 2016
Physics BSc (Hons) June 30 2011
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry MRSC 2019
Member of the Institute of Physics MInstP 2011

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