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PCBM

CAS Number 160848-22-6

Fullerene Acceptors


Product Code M111-250mg
Price £250 ex. VAT

PCBM, high quality electron accepting material for OPV devices

Enables rapid and efficient charge transfer and exciton dissociation


PCBM, CAS number 160848-22-6, is a solubilised version of the buckminsterfullerene, C60, and is one of the most commonly used electron accepting materials in organic photovoltaic devices. The solubility enables PCBM to be dissolved in common solvents used for donor polymers, allowing the simultaneous casting of polymer and fullerene and the formation of an efficient bulk heterojunction. When used in a device with a donor polymer, PCBM enables rapid and efficient charge transfer and exciton dissociation [1], and has a high electron mobility [2].

Soluble fullerene acceptor

Soluble fullerene acceptor

Enables efficient charge transfer and exicition dissociation

Tailored purity for different applications

Tailored purity for different applications

99% purity M111 recommended for OPVs, and 99.5% M112 recommended for OFET

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Available in different purity

Available in different purity

>99% and >99.5%

PCBM from Ossila was used in the high-impact paper (IF 18.81)

PCBM from Ossila was used in the high-impact paper (IF 18.81), Towards Efficient Integrated Perovskite/Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Interfacial Energetic Requirement to Reduce Charge Carrier Recombination Losses, M. Daboczi et al., Adv. Funct. Mater., 2001482 (2022); DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202001482.

The 99% purity PCBM is recommended for general OPV use, and the 99.5% purity PCBM is recommended for OFET applications where the highest crystallisation and mobility is required.

General Information

CAS Number 160848-22-6
Chemical Formula C72H14O2
Full Name [6,6]-Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester
Molecular Weight 911 g/mol
HOMO / LUMO HOMO = -6.1 eV, LUMO = -3.7 eV
Synonyms
  • C60PCBM
  • PC60BM
  • PC61BM
  • [60]PCBM
  • 3’H-cyclopropa[1,9][5,6]fullerene-C60-Ih-3′-butanoic acid 3′-phenyl methyl ester
Classification / Family Fullerenes, Organic semiconducting materials, Organic Photovoltaics, Polymer Solar Cells, Perovskite Solar cells, OFETs, Electron transport layer materials

Chemical Structure

PCBM chemical structure, CAS 160848-22-6
PCBM chemical structure, CAS 160848-22-6

MSDS Documentation

PCBM MSDSPCBM MSDS sheet

Pricing

Product Code Purity Quantity Price
M111 >99% 250 mg £250
M111 >99% 500 mg £400
M111 >99% 1 g £680
M111 >99% 5 g £3000
M112 >99.5% 100 mg £260
M112 >99.5% 250 mg £370
M112 >99.5% 500 mg £680
M112 >99.5% 1 g £1200

Literature and Reviews

  1. Photoinduced electron transfer from a conducting polymer to a buckminsterfullerene, N. S. Sariciftci et al., Science, 258 (1992), 1474–1476; DOI: 10.1126/science.258.5087.1474.
  2. Study of field effect mobility in PCBM films and P3HT:PCBM blends, E. Hauff et al., Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells, 87 (2005), 149–156; DOI: 1016/j.solmat.2004.06.014.
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