Publications

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2024

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A Modular Approach to Tuning Emissive N-Quinolyl Through-Space Charge Transfer States Using sp3-Scaffolds

Joseph O. Watson, Ruth M. Pollard, Mark T. Sims, Marc K. Etherington* & Jonathan P. Knowles*

Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128, 11208–11215, 2024

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Dinuclear platinum(ii) complexes featuring rigidly linked Pt(NCN)X units: the effect of X = SCN− in favouring low-energy, excimer-like luminescence

Rebecca J. Salthouse*, Yana M. Dikova, Marc K. Etherington, & J. A. Gareth Williams*

New Journal Of Chemistry, 48, 18865-18872, 2024

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Suppression of Dexter transfer by covalent encapsulation for efficient matrix-free narrowband deep blue hyperfluorescent OLEDs

Hwan-Hee Cho, Daniel G. Congrave*, Alexander J. Gillet, Stephanie Montanaro, Haydn E. Francis, Victor Riesgo-Gonzalez, Junzhi Ye, Rituparno Chowdury, Weixuan Zeng, Marc K. Etherington, Jeroen Royakkers, Oliver Millington, Andrew D. Bond, Felix Plasser, Jarvist M. Frost, Clare P. Grey, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend, Neil C. Greenham* & Hugo Bronstein*

Nature Materials, 23, 519–526, 2024

2023

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Covalently linked pyrene antennas for optically dense yet aggregation-resistant light-harvesting systems

Lubna Salah, Saad Makhseed, Basma Ghazal, Ahmed Abdel Nazeer, Marc K. Etherington, Carlito Ponseca Jr., Chunyuong Li, Andrew P. Monkman, Andrew Danos* & Ali Shuaib*

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25, 24878-24882, 2023

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A comparison of ZnO nanowires grown using hexamethylenetetramine and ammonium hydroxide on Al:ZnO nanoparticle seed layer

Ewan D. Matheson*, Yongtao Qu, Giray Kartopu, Marc K. Etherington, Guillaume Zoppi, Vincent Barrioz, & Neil S. Beattie

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 34, 1591, 2023

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Oxidation State Tuning of Room Temperature Phosphorescence and Delayed Fluorescence in Phenothiazine and Phenothiazine-5,5-dioxide Dimers

Iain A. Wright*, Marc K. Etherington, Andrei S. Batsanov, Andrew P. Monkman* & Martin R. Bryce*

Chemistry - A European Journal, e202300428, 2023

2022

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Extended Conjugation Attenuates the Quenching of Aggregation-Induced Emitters by Photocyclization Pathways

Andrew T. Turley, Promeet K. Saha, Andrew Danos, Aisha N. Bismillah, Andrew P. Monkman, Dmitry S. Yufit, Basile F. E. Curchod, Marc K. Etherington & Paul R. McGonigal*

Angewandte Chemie, 134, 24, 2022

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From phosphorescence to delayed fluorescence in one step: tuning photophysical properties by quaternisation of an sp 2-hybridised nitrogen atom

Anastasia Klimash, Antonio Prlj, Dmitry S. Yufit, Abhijit Mallick, Basile F. E. Curchod, Paul R. McGonigal, Peter J. Skabara* & Marc K. Etherington*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10, 9484-9491, 2022

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Dominant dimer emission provides colour stability for red thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter

Tom Cardeynaels, Marc K. Etherington*, Simon Paredis, Andrei S. Batsanov, Jasper Deckers, Kleitos Stavrou, Drik Vanderzande, Andrew P. Monkman, Benoit Champagne & Wouter Maes*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10, 5840-5848, 2022

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Simultaneous enhancement of thermally activated delayed fluorescence and photoluminescence quantum yield via homoconjugation

Stephanie Montanaro, Piotr Pander, Jai-Ram Mistry, Mark R. J. Elsegood, Simon J. Teat, Andrew D. Bond, Iain A. Wright*, Daniel G. Congrave* & Marc K. Etherington*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10, 6306-6313, 2022

2021

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Suppressing dimer formation by increasing conformational freedom in multi-carbazole thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters

Lubna Salah, Marc K. Etherington*, Ali Shuaib, Andrew Danos, Ahmed A. Nazeer, Basma Ghazal, Antonio Prlj, Andrew T. Turley, Abhijit Mallick, Paul R. McGonigal, Basile F. E. Curchod, Andrew P. Monkman & Saad Makhseed*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9, 189-198, 2021

2020

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Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Beyond the Single Molecule

Marc K. Etherington*

Frontiers in Chemistry, 8, 2020

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Modulation of charge transfer by N-alkylation to control photoluminescence energy and quantum yield

Andrew T. Turley, Andrew Danos, Antonio Prlj, Andrew P. Monkman, Basile F. E. Curchod, Paul R. McGonigal* & Marc K. Etherington*

Chemical Science, 11, 6990-6995, 2020

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Investigation of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from a Donor–Acceptor Compound with Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Density Functional Theory Applying an Optimally Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Functional

Reinhard Scholz, Paul Kleine, Ramunas Lygaitas, Ludwig Popp, Simone Lenk, Marc K. Etherington, Andrew P. Monkman & Sebastian Reineke

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124, 8, 1535-1553, 2020

2019

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Homoconjugation enhances the photophysical and electrochemical properties of a new 3D intramolecular charge transfer iptycene displaying deep blue emission

Stephanie Montanaro, Daniel G. Congrave, Marc K. Etherington & Iain A. Wright*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7, 12886-12890, 2019

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Revealing resonance effects and intramolecular dipole interactions in the positional isomers of benzonitrile-core thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials

Nadzeya A. Kukhta, Heather F. Higginbotham, Tomas Matulaitis, Andrew Danos*, Aisha N. Bismillah, Nils Haase, Marc K. Etherington, Dmitry S. Yufit, Paul R. McGonigal, Juozas V. Gražulevičius & Andrew P. Monkman*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7, 9184-9194, 2019

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Intramolecular Dimerization Quenching of Delayed Emission in Asymmetric D–D′–A TADF Emitters

Kai-Lin Woon*, Chih-Lun Yi, Kuan-Chung Pan, Marc K. Etherington, Chung-Chih Wu*, Ken-Tsung Wong* & Andrew P. Monkman*

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 19, 12400-12410, 2019

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Persistent Dimer Emission in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials

Marc K. Etherington*, Nadzeya A. Kukhta, Heather F. Higginbotham, Andrew Danos, Aisha N. Bismillah, David R. Graves, Paul R. McGonigal, Nils Haase, Antonia Morherr, Andrei S. Batsanov, Christof Pflumm, Vandana Bhalla, Martin R. Bryce & Andrew P. Monkman.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 17, 11109-11117, 2019

2018

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Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Mediated through the Upper Triplet State Manifold in Non-Charge-Transfer Star-Shaped Triphenylamine–Carbazole Molecules

Piotr Pander, Radoslaw Motyka, Pawel Zassowski, Marc K. Etherington, Daniele Varsano, Tales J. da Silva, Marilia J. Caldas, Przemyslaw Data* & Andrew P. Monkman

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122, 42, 23934-23942, 2018

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Triphenylamine disubstituted naphthalene diimide: elucidation of excited states involved in TADF and application in near-infrared organic light emitting diodes

Heather F. Higginbotham, Piotr Pander, Renata Rybakiewicz, Marc K. Etherington, Subshani Maniam, Malgorzata Zagorska, Adam Pron, Andrew P. Monkman & Przemyslaw Data*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, 8219-8225, 2018

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Chemical and conformational control of the energy gaps involved in the thermally activated delayed fluorescence mechanism

Paloma L. dos Santos*, Marc K. Etherington & Andrew P. Monkman

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, 4842-4853, 2018

2017

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Excited-State Aromatic Interactions in the Aggregation-Induced Emission of Molecular Rotors

Jiri Sturala, Marc K. Etherington, Aisha N. Bismillah, Heather F. Higginbotham, William Trewby, Juan A. Aguilar, Elizabeth H. C. Bromley, Alyssa-Jennifer Avestro*, Andrew P. Monkman* & Paul R. McGonigal*

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, 49, 17882-17889, 2017

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Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Anisotropy from Oriented Films of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters

Heather F. Higginbotham, Marc K. Etherington & Andrew P. Monkman*

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8, 13, 2930-2935, 2017

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The contributions of molecular vibrations and higher triplet levels to the intersystem crossing mechanism in metal-free organic emitters

Rongjuan Huang, João Avó, Thomas Northey, Emma Chaning-Pearce, Paloma L. dos Santos, Jonathan S. Ward, Przemyslaw Data, Marc K Etherington, Mark A. Fox, Thomas J. Penfold, Mário N. Berberan-Santos, João C. Lima, Martin R. Bryce & Fernando B. Dias*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5, 6269-6280, 2017

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Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters

Marc K. Etherington, Flavio Franchello, Jamie Gibson, Thomas Northey, Jose Santos, Jonathan S. Ward, Heather F. Higginbotham, Przemyslaw Data, Aleksandra Kurowska, Paloma L. dos Santos, David R. Graves, Andrei S. Batsanov, Fernando B. Dias, Martin R. Bryce, Thomas J. Penfold & Andrew P. Monkman*

Nature Communications, 8, 14987, 2017

2016

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Revealing the spin–vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence

Marc K. Etherington, Jamie Gibson, Heather F. Higginbotham, Thomas J. Penfold & Andrew P. Monkman*

Nature Communications, 7, 13680, 2016

2014

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Recombination pathways in polymer:fullerene photovoltaics observed through spin polarization measurements

Marc K. Etherington, Jianpu Wang, Philip C. Y. Chow & Neil C. Greenham*

Applied Physics Letters, 104, 063304, 2014

2013

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Ultrahigh Efficiency Fluorescent Single and Bi-Layer Organic Light Emitting Diodes: The Key Role of Triplet Fusion

Chien-Jung Chiang, Alpay Kimyonok, Marc K. Etherington, Gareth C. Griffiths, Vygintas Jankus, Figen Turksoy* & Andrew P. Monkman*

Advanced Functional Materials, 23, 6, 739-746, 2013