Fullerene as the Promising Acceptor Materials in the Organic Photovoltaic Systems

Arikawa Mineyuki is now the President, CEO of Frontier Carbon Corporation

(FCC) from this April. He joined FCC as the manager of the Engineering & Development center in 2001 and with many good engineers and researchers in this center, the Fullerene production technologies in terms of the industrial material production was developed. These technologies allowed FCC to realize large amount of Fullerene supply with the lower cost and the more reliable quality assurance, and FCC could contributed much for emerging many Fullerene application products. Then he expanded his management areas in the production and the application development groups as well as the process development group.

 

He got the B.S. degree in Tokyo University, the electrical engineering department in 1981, and then joined Mitsubishi Kasei Industry (current Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC)) as the chemical plant construction engineer. In MCC, he worked as the manager of Instrumentation engineering group, the manager of the production technology group, and the coordinator of the Research and Technology Coordinate Section.

 

His current focusing area is "Fullerene and its related technologies" , but in the former positions, his specialized areas are "Process Measurements and Process Analytical system", "Laboratory Automation in the R&D field", and "Production technology".

Frontier Carbon Corporation (FCC) which was established in 2001, produces and sells Fullerenes and Fullerene related products as the industrial material supplier. FCC was realized the combustion production system for the large amount of Fullerene and completed the industrial production systems in 2003. Then FCC also developed a variety of technologies in many Fullerene applications as well as the Fullerene production. Recently FCC supplies many grades of the OPV acceptor materials both in the dry fabrication system (C60) and in the wet fabrication system (PCBM and its family compounds) and is expanding its sales. FCC got good reputations from the OPV research area.