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Product Code M2233A1-100mg
Price £400 ex. VAT

PDCBT, highly efficient fullerene free polymer solar cells

High quality and high purity semiconducting polymer available online for priority dispatch


PDCBT (CAS number 1609536-17-5) is a medium-to-wide bandgap polymer semiconductor that belongs to the polythiophene family. With two electron-withdrawing carboxylate side groups, PDCBT is relatively electron deficient when it is compared with P3HT. PDCBT has a main absorption peak (in film) located at 551 nm, 37 nm red-shifted compared to that of P3HT.

PDCBT has been used in highly efficient fullerene free polymer solar cells. These have achieved device power conversion efficiency of 10.16% with ITIC used as the non-fullerene acceptor [6]. Ta-WOx doped PDCBT has been reported as efficient low-loss hole transport layer in hybrid organohalide lead perovskite solar cell not only to enhance the device performance achieving maximum efficiencies of 21.2% but also offering more than 1000 hours of light stability with almost 95% of its efficiency maintained [7]

Device structure: ITO/C60-SAM/perovskite/PDCBT/Ta-WOx/Au

Thickness (nm) VOC (V) JSC (mA cm-2) FF (%) PCE (%)
650
1.17 22.7 80 21.2

Luminosyn™ PDCBT 

Luminosyn™ PDCBT is now available.

High purity
D18 (PCE18) is purified via Soxhlet extraction with acetone, hexane, and chloroform under an argon atmosphere

Large quantity orders
Plan your experiments with polymers from the same batch and batch-specific GPC data

General Information

Full name Poly[2,2''''-bis[[(2-butyloctyl)oxy]carbonyl][2,2':5',2'':5'',2'''-quaterthiophene] -5,5'''-diyl]
Synonyms PDCBT
Chemical formula (C42H56O4S4)n
CAS number 1609536-17-5
HOMO / LUMO HOMO = -5.26 eV, LUMO = -3.0 eV [1]
Solubility Chloroform, chlorobenzene and dichlorobenzene
Absorption* λmax 551 nm (in film) [2]
Form Brown reddish flakes/powders
Melting point Tm = 282 °C (lit.)
Classification / Family Polythiophenes, Organic semiconducting materials, Medium-to- wide bandgap polymers, Organic photovoltaics, Polymer solar cells, Perovskite solar cells, Hole-transport layer materials, NF-PSCs, All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs).

* Measurable with an optical spectrometer, see our spectrometer application notes.

Chemical Structure

PDCBT, wide band-gap polymer, 1609536-17-5
Chemical structure of PDCBT, CAS No. 1609536-17-5

MSDS Documentation

PDCBT MSDSPDCBT MSDS sheet

Pricing

Batch Quantity Price
M2233A1 100 mg £400
M2233A1 250 mg £800
M2233A1 500 mg £1450
M2233A1 1 g £2600
M2233A1 5 g / 10 g* Please contact us for details

* Lead time of 4-6 weeks.

Batch details

Batch Mw Mn PDI Stock Info
M2233A1 101,375 40,659 2.49 In stock

Literature and Reviews

  1. Visible Sensitization for Non-Fullerene Polymer Solar Cells Using a Wide Bandgap Polymer, Y. Wang et al., J. Photopolym. Sci. Technol., 31 (2), 177-181 (2018); doi: 10.2494/photopolymer.31.177.
  2. A polythiophene derivative with superior properties for practical application in polymer solar cells, M. Zhang et al., Adv. Mater., 26(33), 5880-5885 (2014); DOI: 10.1002/adma.201401494.
  3. Thermal behaviour of dicarboxylic ester bithiophene polymers exhibiting a high open-circuit voltage, R. Heuvel et al., J. Mater. Chem. C, 6, 3731--3742 (2018); DOI: 10.1039/c7tc04322h.
  4. Ternary Blend Polymer Solar Cells Based on Wide-Bandgap Polymer PDCBT and Low-Bandgap Polymer PTB7-Th, H. Kim et al., Chem. Lett., 47(8), 1059-1062 (2018); doi: 10.1246/cl.180420.
  5. Fine-tuning the side-chains of non-fullerene small molecule acceptors to match with appropriate polymer donors, M. Chang et al, J. Mater. Chem. A, 6, 8586 (2018); DOI: 10.1039/c8ta00764k.
  6. Highly Efficient Fullerene‐Free Polymer Solar Cells Fabricated with Polythiophene Derivative, Y. Qin et al., Adv. Mater., 28, 9416-9422 (2016); doi: 10.1002/adma.201601803.
  7. A generic interface to reduce the efficiency-stability-cost gap of perovskite solar cells, Y. Hou et al., Science, 358 (6337), 1192-1197 (2017); DOI: 10.1126/science.aao5561.
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