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Product Code M111-250mg
Price $338 ex. VAT

High Quality Electron Accepting Material

Enables rapid and efficient charge transfer and exciton dissociation


Overview | Specifications | MSDS | Literature and Reviews


PCBM (CAS number: 160848-22-6), in its full form, is [6,6] phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester. The butyric acid methyl ester and phenyl functionality means it is a solubilized version of the buckminsterfullerene C60.

PCBM is one of the most commonly used electron accepting materials in organic photovoltaic devices. It is also used as an electron transport material in bulk heterojunction perovskite–PCBM solar cells. 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].

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.

Soluble fullerene acceptor, 160848-22-6

Soluble Fullerene

Efficient charge transfer and excition dissociation

Popular electron accepting material

Popular Material

For OPVs and perovskite solar cells

Tailored purity 160848-22-6 for different applications

Tailored High Purity

>99% or >99.5% for different applications

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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.

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 or 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

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

MSDS Documentation


PCBM MSDSPCBM MSDS sheet

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polymer-fullerene solar cell Polymer-Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells are based on blends of semiconducting polymers and fullerene derivatives, such as PCBM. It is described as a bulk heterojunction as it involves a blend of two materials with differing energy band gaps, forming a dispersed, interpenetrating network.

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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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