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Hours after unreleased Kanye West demo tracks emerged online, even more new music from the platinum-selling hip-hop artist has flooded the Internet.
New records titled "Know The Game," "Wow," and "Need To Know" are the latest batch from Ye's unreleased stash.
On Friday night, unreleased demos of two Kanye West tracks emerged. Now tonight, the world is privy to some more unreleased material from the Chicago superstar. The source for all of these previously unheard tracks comes from a CD that Kanye used to pass out back when he was trying to convince the world that this rap career could really work for him. Needless to say, the man was certainly right all those years ago. Along with the unreleased "Know The Game," two more tracks have been unearthed which have previously been heard before, except this time around they come equipped with new verses. (Complex)
Heading into the weekend, a couple of previously unreleased College Dropout and Late Registration tunes surfaced.
G.O.O.D Friday? Not really but while we await the arrival of new material from Kanye West, check out this old demo, which seems to be an alternate or maybe an original version with even slightly new lyrics. Notably, the beat is completely different from the Lauryn Hill sampled or Syleena Johnson sang versions that appeared on College Dropout. There's also an original version of "Bring Me Down" which is labeled "Have It Your Way", both of these demos are believed to date back to 2001. Again with noticeably different lyrics, a more aggressive Kanye, the second verse on "Have It Your Way" – some of the lines were later used on "Whole City Behind Us". (DDOTOMEN)
A few years ago, an unaired 2002 pre-fame Kanye interview sprouted online.
"Kanye West, super producer extraordinaire, allow myself to introduce myself," Ye said in the October 2002 interview. "If you hadn't heard just three seconds ago, I'm Kanye West, and you know, I'm also known for such hits as 'H to the Izzo,' you know, you see the gear — I try to switch the game up. Every time somebody do something, I'ma try to figure out something new man. This one dude, got me really psyched because he came to me and was like, 'Yo, I think your job in life is to go out and find new things' and basically like going out and doing a song that nobody's doing and bringing that back or a lot of the concepts I'm finna talk about in rap, or like back when I was wearing throwbacks and I had to go down to Atlanta to find them before mad n*ggas was wearing throwbacks, so when you see me, you might always see me in some next sh*t, like, 'He dress kinda weird or something.' But just keep in mind what I had on and look up two years later…" (Radio Planet TV)
Back in 2009, media publication Entertainment Weekly named College Dropout its top pick for album of the decade.
The 2004 debut from West — a revolutionarily relatable rapper who also happened to be a beatmaking genius — was accepted into the hip-hop canon instantly, no diploma needed. For more Bests of the Decade, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Dec. 4. (Entertainment Weekly)
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I don't want to take things too far, but how would Pac do against the lesser champions at these weights? I think he could have stopped Cory Spinks last night if they were sharing a ring instead of he and Cotto. What about a Sebastian Sylvester at 160?How far could the P4P star go?
i think pac cud easily demolish foreman in 154lbs division
If pacquiao takes on a light puncher like Foreman, he will probably be able to win a decision. If he were to take on Sergio Martinez, he will get knocked out. He shouldn't be fighting above welter. There's no point in him moving up when there are so many challenges at welter. I would like to see him fight Shane Mosely after mosley destroys Berto in their upcoming mismatch. I would pick Mosley by KO in that one as well.
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She was right. The children, 16 in all, arrived at around 9:30 that morning. One by one, they were assessed and treated, most for bruises and superficial injuries. It went like clockwork. By noon, all had been released.
That kind of smooth service is part of what's driving the Peds ED's remarkable patient satisfaction ratings. Quarterly surveys sent to random patients attract rave reviews ("Excellent! Never had a better emergency room experience." "May I always be so lucky!"). For the past two years, the department has ranked consistently in the 75th percentile, scoring between 84.2 and 85.3 on a scale of 100. For the quarter ending Sept. 30, it scored its highest satisfaction rating ever, coming in above the 95th national percentile ranking.
What's the secret behind these soaring satisfaction rates? Vic Broccolino, president and CEO of the 182-bed community hospital, says it's the "can-do" attitude on the part of the entire team. "Most live in the community. They are treating the children of their neighbors or colleagues."
Patients' tributes extend to everyone on the team. That includes the physicians, most of whom practice exclusively at HCGH; the 36 nurses (approximately 16 FTEs), all trained in pediatrics; patient support techs and housekeeping personnel. "They are always on the unit looking to see what needs to be done," medical director David Monroe says of the environmental services team. "There's a sense of ownership. This is their unit."
The environment has likewise contributed to patient satisfaction. Situated in a two-story, $31.5 million addition that opened in 2002—the largest construction project in the hospital's history—the department is separate from, but adjacent to, adult emergency services. Its 12 ER rooms are on one side of the unit, its six private inpatient rooms on the other. These areas are divided by an elongated, central nursing station. "Kids who are admitted see the same nurses and doctors. They get continuity," says Debbie Fleischmann, director of nursing for pediatrics, ED and short stay. "We don't know of anyone else in the mid-Atlantic area who had come up with this concept." Other area community hospitals took note, however, and some have since patterned their pediatric emergency rooms on Howard County General's.
The combined model was actually created to achieve efficient nursing practice. Community hospitals nationwide have had to downsize their pediatric inpatient units significantly and send the nurses off to other units, according to Fleischmann. But when inpatient beds are vacant in the Peds ED at HCGH, nurses can work in the adjacent intensive setting. (Only about 4 percent of ED patients are admitted, and the average length of stay is 1.5 days.)
Before the addition was built, the service was in a three-bed area, and it was growing at a rate of 30 percent a year. "Wait time became an issue because we did not have the capacity," says Fleischmann. The new wing tripled the department's space and slashed wait times to less than two hours, on average. Volumes, meanwhile, exploded from about 6,000 visits a year in 1996 to 19,000 last year.
Monroe and his team are constantly tweaking the service. A patient safety program focusing on patient identification and medication safety was recently implemented. X-rays are now available in minutes. Wait times may be further reduced by dedicating some rooms to quicker patients. There are even plans in the works to take appointments. "Conceptually, it's a leap," Monroe allows. But often, he says, kids would be more comfortable waiting at home, rather than in the emergency department.
"We had the highest satisfaction ratings ever this quarter, but we're not stopping there," says Monroe. "We're always trying to find out what makes patients happy."
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Despite the prophecies that many analysts made last year, it looks like neither Fiat nor Ferrari has any pressing interest in listing the supercar maker as a separate entity from its parent company. According to Reuters, Ferrari CEO Luca Cordero di Montezemolo has said that there are no current plans to list the company, and that while such a project may crop up in the next four-to-five years, it's not something that's on the table at the moment. Montezemolo made the comments while speaking with foreign media, and he added that it's possible that Ferrari may never be listed at all.
Just last year, analysts predicted that Fiat was considering a separate listing for the Prancing Horse. Fiat currently owns about 85 percent of the Maranello-based automaker, though when the reports surfaced, the company said that a separate listing for Ferrari was only one of several different strategies that it was investigating at the time.
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So I tried using the Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery (Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery) and It did not work for me.
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On another instance, It said "Registry is corrupt"
Checked BIOS in one instance and it showed 2 boot drives, but now it only shows one.
Is there any way to recover the files in my laptop without reformatting it?
Note: Asus Music Now can access the drive where Program files, windows and Users.
I can even listen to music using that and browse the internet using it but that was all I could access through it.
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Hello and welcome Noel mate can you try the drive/s out on another machine using a USB to SATA adaptor? (see pic)
Alternatively you could make a bootable Ubuntu disk set the BIOS to boot from optical and use the TRY version any rives hooked up can be read in that OS data recovered etc
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I cannot find a USB to SATA adaptor. Well, my cousin cant since he asked around for those.
Is there any specific version for ubuntu?
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No mate the one I posted is ok to use but it will ask if you want to TRY or INSTALL - use the TRY version.
It doesn't take long to get it working and once in you will see any drives that are installed just click on them and expand them - it is a bit of trial and error though.
if you come across one of those adaptors it is well worth getting one I use both of mine allt the time for doing all sorts of things on drives without having to install them inside the case. Ebay have stcks of them and they are really cheap.
Some in here Newegg.com - usb to sata adaptor
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NEW YORK Prices for deoxidized aluminum were relatively flat in February, with market participants telling AMM that tightness in scrap coupled with lower quotes from steel mills continued to present significant headwinds for maintaining profitability.
Most producers logged sales at 99 cents to $1.01 per pound in February, with some sources telling AMM they can no longer give in to price pressure from the mills, even if it means exiting the market.
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Tougher schedule would help Mercyhurst women's hockey
Michael Sisti and his Mercyhurst women's hockey team view every opponent on their schedule as a challenge.
In some cases, they are challenging.
They open the 2013-14 season this weekend at Minnesota State Mankato, which nearly swept a two-game series out there two years ago. They face two ranked teams -- a two-game series at Clarkson Oct. 18-19 and two games with Cornell Jan. 10-11 at Mercyhurst Ice Center.
The Lakers face Ohio State, which received votes in the initial USCHO.com Division I poll, in their home opener Oct. 5. College Hockey America rival Robert Morris has given the Lakers trouble the past couple of years. Unranked St. Lawrence also should give them a good test in a two-game series in Erie Nov. 26-27.
But after those 13 games, which teams on the 33-game schedule will give the Lakers the battles they need to prepare for the postseason?
Providence? The Lakers have won four straight meetings with the Friars by a combined 19-3 score. Maine? The Black Bears had a 5-24-4 record a season ago.
Syracuse? The Orange are winless in 23 career meetings with the Lakers. The rest of the CHA? Lindenwood, Penn State and Rochester Institute of Technology finished last season with a combined 30-68-10 record. Lindenwood begins only its third year in NCAA Division I. Penn State and RIT joined D-I last year.
So expect the Lakers to win at least 25 games for the seventh time in eight years and 13th time in 15 seasons under Sisti, the only coach in program history.
And expect that win total to be enough for the Lakers to extend their record of consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances to nine in March.
Then expect the Lakers to face their toughest opponents of the season in the national playoffs. That's a problem, and it has kept Mercyhurst from adding its first national championship in women's hockey to its already rich history.
The Lakers roll through the competition every year. They also rebound quickly from the occasional hiccup, often against less skilled and experienced teams. But there are no inferior teams at tournament time. These teams are just as good, if not better.
That's when the Lakers could run into Wisconsin and Minnesota, who have won a combined eight national championships and headline a conference -- the WCHA -- that has claimed all 13 titles in the sport's history.
Then there's schools like Boston College, Boston University and Cornell, which have grown into perennial title contenders in recent years.
Except for Clarkson and Cornell, as well as four games with BC the past two seasons, the Lakers haven't consistently played these high-profile schools in the regular season.
So, perhaps, the Lakers aren't as ready to face that level of competition as they expect to be.
Don't blame Sisti for this. He will play any school anytime and anywhere. But the Lakers can't beat any school anytime and anywhere.
Schools from the WCHA, Hockey East and ECAC, which already play a difficult conference schedule, might choose to shy away from playing the Lakers in non-conference games.
The Lakers play whoever they can get.
As Sisti said Tuesday, "we'll play them and see what happens."
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No. Pos. Name Yr. Hometown
1 G Sara Besseling Fr. Stockholm, Sweden
4 F Emily Janiga So. Aurora, N.Y.
5 D Molly Byrne- Jr. Plymouth, Minn.
6 F Taylor Accursi Fr. Ancaster, Ontario
7 F Hannah Bale So. Oakville, Ontario
8 F Kaleigh Chippy Sr. Cleveland, Ohio
10 F Megan Whiddon Fr. Redondo Beach, Calif.
13 F Shelby Bram- Jr. St. Anne, Manitoba
14 F Maggie Rothgery So. Elyria, Ohio
15 D Paige Horton Fr. St. Thomas, Ontario
16 F Jenna Dingeldein F Toronto, Ontario
18 F J'nai Mahadeo So. Airdrie, Alberta
20 F Kathy Donohue So. Rochester, N.Y.
21 F Christie Cicero- Sr. Manalapan, N.J.
22 F Brianna Kennelly Fr. Dundas, Ontario
24 F Jaclyn Arbour So. South Setauket, N.Y.
25 F Jillian Skinner Fr. Markham, Ontario
26 D Caroline Luczak- Jr. Midhurst, Ontario
27 F Christine Bestland- Sr. Brunkild, Manitoba
28 D Lauren Kilroy So. Cypress, Calif.
29 G Julia DiTondo So. Kenmore, N.Y.
34 G Amanda Makela Jr. Thunder Bay, Ontario
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Head coach -- Michael Sisti (15th season)
Associate head coach -- Louis Goulet (6th season -- 3rd in current position)
Assistant coach -- Delaney Collins (3rd season)
Volunteer assistant coach -- Allysen Weidner (2nd season)
Athletic trainer/equipment manager -- Andy Simon-Wambach (1st season)
- Goaltending: The Lakers have won with a one-goalie system. They also have won with platoons in net. Junior Amanada Makela has the most experience, but coach Michael Sisti is high on sophomore Julia DiTondo and freshman Sara Besseling.
- Special teams: The Lakers have been among the best teams nationally on the power play and penalty kill every year. With Christine Bestland, Shelby Bram and Emily Janiga leading the way up front, as well as Molly Byrne and Caroline Luczak on the blue line, the Lakers should be strong in those areas again.
- Consistent focus: The Lakers have experienced the occasional slip-up against inferior teams. As usual, they can't have too many of them, since College Hockey America doesn't earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I playoffs until next season.
- More online: Mercyhurst coach Michael Sisti shares his thoughts on the season on Twitter at twitter.com/goeriehockey.


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Barry Enright (2-1) went the distance in the doubleheader opener as he limited the Lookouts (17-23) to just three hits while surrendering two unearned runs. He even put the BayBears (20-20) in front with a two-run homer off Mario Alvarez (3-3) in the bottom of the third.
Enright's only blemishes came after an Evan Frey error to start the fifth, putting Trayvon Robinson at second. Robinson scored on a throwing error by Konrad Schimdt. Scott Van Slyke singled once Robinson reached and ended up scoring after Enright chucked three wild pitches to move Van Slyke around the bases 90 feet at a time.
Enright settled in from there and finished the ballgame by retiring his last six batters faced. He struck out eight in the contest and didn't walk anybody. The BayBears broke a 2-2 tie in the fifth with Jake Wald walking and scoring on a sac fly by Frey. Ollie Linton tripled with two outs and took home on a base hit by Collin Cowgill.
In the nightcap, Henry (3-2) picked up where Enright left off by rattling off five scoreless innings in his first start of the season. The BayBears gave Henry an early lead to work with by scoring twice in the first against Timothy Sexton (2-2). Frey led off the first with a double and scored on a bases-loaded walk to Bryan Byrne. A sac fly from Taylor Harbin made it 2-0.
Chattanooga fell into a deeper hole in the fifth when the BayBears plated three on a two-run single by Byrne and a throwing error by Corey Smith. They tacked on one more in the sixth with an Ed Easley sac fly bringing home Gerson Montilla.
Roque Mercedes and Leyson Septimo preserved the BayBears' third shutout victory of the season with scoreless sixth and seventh frames. The BayBears' pitching staff combined for 14 innings, 15 strikeouts, just one walk, seven hits allowed, and no earned runs in the doubleheader.
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- Ed Easley extended his hitting streak to eight games with a single in Game 2. He also walked and stole two bases.
- Primarily used as a reliever the past few years, Henry had a 3.65 ERA in seven starts last year and a 5.60 ERA in six starts in 2006.
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Abstract: Solar-to-electricity energy conversion and large scale electricity storage technologies are key to achieve a sustainable development of society. For energy conversion, photoelectrochemical solar cells were proposed as an economic alternative to the conventional Si-based technology. For energy storage, metal-ion batteries are a very promising technology. Titania (TiO2) based anodes are widely used in photoelectrochemical cells and have recently emerged as safe, high-rate anodes for metal-ion batteries. In both applications, titania interacts with electrolyte species: molecules and metal ions. Details of this interaction determine the performance of the electrode in both technologies, but no unified theoretical description exists, e.g., there is no systematic description of the effects of Li, Na insertion into TiO2 on solar cell performance (while it is widely studied in battery research) and no description of effects of surface adsorbents on the performance of battery anodes (while they are widely studied in solar cell research). In fact, there is no systematic description of interactions of electrolyte species with TiO2 of different phases and morphologies. We propose a computation-focused study that will bridge the two fields that have heretofore largely been developing in parallel and will identify improved anode materials for both photoelectrochemical solar cells and metal-ion batteries.
1. Introduction
Solar-to-electricity energy conversion technologies are key to achieve a sustainable development of society. To fully utilize the potential of solar and other intermittent sources of energy (e.g., wind, waves), development of electrical energy storage technologies is necessary [1].
For energy conversion, photoelectrochemical solar cells and, specifically, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) [2,3] and direct injection cells [4], were proposed as an economic alternative to the conventional Si-based technology, as they can avoid the use of high-purity Si and face no resource limitations [5,6]. Dye-sensitized cells are obtained by sensitizing a wide band gap semiconductor anode (usually TiO2) with molecules—purely organic or metal-organic dyes—that effectively absorb solar radiation. Absorption promotes electrons into the dye's excited state(s), and the electrons are then injected into the conduction band of the oxide and can travel through the external circuit to the counterelectrodes [7], from where they are carried by a redox species in an electrolyte (usually I-/I3- in MeCN [8]) back to the sensitized anode to regenerate the dye (Figure 1). To achieve commercialization, a number of issues need to be resolved, including the stability. Rapid temporal degradation is in fact the most important impediment to a widespread application of this technology. Stability is in particular related to interactions of the anode with electrolyte species; for example, it has been known that dye desorption is influenced by the presence of water [9] and also that phase changes in the anode can occur after a while.
For energy storage, metal ion batteries are the most promising technology. In a metal ion battery, metal ions (usually Li+, Na+, Mg2+, but other metals have also been used [10,11,12,13,14,15,16]) travel in an ion-conducting electrolyte between electrodes with different chemical potentials (Figure 2). During discharge, this potential difference drives the ions from the anode to the cathode, while the electrons travel through the external circuit. During charge, the current direction is reversed by applying external voltage. While Li ion batteries today provide the highest energy density among commercial batteries, to achieve economic large scale storage [1], non-Li batteries, such as Na-ion batteries, are most promising, as Li resources are limited and very unevenly distributed [17,18]. Development of practical batteries passes again through optimization of electrode-electrolyte (including Na+ or Li+) interactions [19,20,21,22,23].
TiO2 is the most widely used and best-performing anode in mesoscopic photoelectrochemical solar cells [2,3,24], due to its band structure and a reasonable conductance of nanostructured TiO2. At the same time, it has been recognized that there is much room for improvement of electronic properties of TiO2 anodes: it is desirable to improve their conductance and to be able to control the band gap, the conduction band edge position and the density of states at the dye-semiconductor interface [25,26], in order to improve the short-circuit current, open circuit voltage and to decrease charge recombination. This can be done by using co-adsorbent molecules [27,28,29] and counterions, such as Li+, Na+, Mg2+ [30,31,32].
At the same time, TiO2 anodes are receiving more and more attention by the battery community [33], as they are able to form lithiated phases with up to one Li atom per formula unit (and even 1.25 predicted recently [34]) with a minimal volume expansion [35,36], and therefore, they have a good theoretical capacity (335 mAh/g). They are safer than graphite [37] and have a notable cycling ability (high Li mobility): Li insertion into TiO2 can be facile (albeit dependent on the initial phase) and accompanied by phase transitions [34,38,39]. On the contrary, insertion of non-Li ions (such as Na+) into TiO2 phases is largely unstudied, even though it is non-Li batteries that hold the greatest promise as large-scale storage devices to be deployed together with intermittent energy sources (wind, solar). Also, much effort is being spent to develop new electrolytes for metal-ion batteries [40,41,42,43,44,45]. However, the effects of key molecular functional groups on the electronic properties of a TiO2 interface are also largely unstudied.
We see, therefore, that in both applications, titania interacts with electrolyte species—molecules and metal ions, and details of this interaction determine the performance of the electrode, including its lifetime. In solar cell research, electrolyte additives—atomic and molecular—are routinely used to improve performance. Specifically, Li, Na and Mg ions are used to control the energy of the conduction band edge of titania [30,31,32]. In theoretical models that include the effects of these ions, they are usually considered as surface-adsorbates. On the other hand, from battery research, we now know that insertion of large amounts of metal atoms into TiO2 is possible [16,46,47,48]. It has also been reported that anatase TiO2 anodes in DSSC can undergo a phase transition to the B phase [49]. One can surmise that there should be significant insertion of metal ions into the DSSC anodes. There exist experimental reports of irreversible Li insertion in DSSC anodes [50]. Yet, insertion of Li+, Na+, Mg2+ in DSSC anodes has not been systematically studied and is an example of a separation between two research fields that should inform each other.
Another evidence of this separation, which we propose to bridge for the benefit of both fields, is in the fact that while DSSC research has paid much attention to the use of co-adsorbate molecules to functionalize TiO2 anodes [28,29,51,52,53], this has not been done for batteries. Co-adsorbed molecules are used to modulate the conduction band edge to enhance electron injection and to prevent recombination (by physically preventing a close approach of the redox species and of the dye oxidation equivalent hole to the oxide surface [27,28,54,55,56,57,58]). They also change adsorption energetics and configuration of the dye [9,54,55,56]. Most theoretical studies of battery anode materials have focused on bulk properties, such as bulk diffusion barriers and rates for metal atoms/ion, voltages and volume expansion [59,60,61,62,63,64]. Interactions of Li with surfaces and nanostructures exposed to vacuum were also considered [65,66,67,68,69]. Interactions with the electrolyte are usually considered in the context of reactions leading to the SEI (solid-electrolyte interface) formation or to an irreversible loss of the active metal (formation of carbonates) [19,20,21,70,71,72,73]. It has, however, been established that surface properties of a battery anode (adsorption energy, insertion barrier) can be more important for storage than its bulk properties [74]. Specifically, the likelihood and the rate of ion insertion are determined, respectively, by the relation between the associated defect formation energy, the metal cohesive energy and the solvation energy and by the insertion barrier through the anode-electrolyte interface. This latter is especially sensitive to other species interacting with the surface [75]. Surface functionalization with molecules could allow for a degree of control over those properties, but remains largely unstudied.
It is therefore important to understand and optimize the interactions of TiO2 with molecules and atomic species for applications in both solar cells and batteries, but no unified description exists, e.g., there is no description of the effects of Li, Na insertion into TiO2 on solar cell performance and no description of the effects of molecular functionalization of the anode surface on battery performance. In fact, there is no systematic description of the interactions of electrolyte species with TiO2 of different phases and morphologies. We propose that such a description be produced based on computational modeling backed by specific experiments. It then will be possible to identify titania nano-morphologies optimal for batter and solar cell performance. Such a study would bridge the two fields that have largely been developing in parallel and would identify improved anode materials for both photoelectrochemical solar cells and metal-ion batteries.
2. The Challenge: A Systematic Study of Functionalized, Alloyed TiO2 Anodes
2.1. Project Scope
We propose to study the dependence of the properties of TiO2 anodes on the molecular structure of co-adsorbents. This will identify structure-property relations, which will guide the experimental design of improved solar cells and batteries. We suggest imidazole derivatives for this study, as this kind of molecules has been used to improve DSSC performance [76,77] and they are known to be compatible with Li battery components [78]. Structural changes of the nanocrystalline TiO2 anode due to the insertion of counterions, such as Li+ or Na+, will then be studied. We hypothesize that there is significant intercalation into the anode of some of the counterions commonly used in photoelectrochemical cell electrolytes and that it could be a determinant of cell (in)stability, which has been preventing commercialization. Such intercalation has been observed in the phases of titania used as prospective anodes for the Li-ion batteries, but is often ignored in the prevailing discourse about and theoretical models of the effect of counterions on the performance of photoelectrochemical cells.
To identify candidate titania anodes for large-scale, non-Li batteries, the insertion of both Na+ and Li+ should be compared. Insertion into TiO2 anodes of different crystal phases and surface cuts/nano-morphologies, which are used in solar cells, as well as those used as prospective battery anodes will be considered.
By considering the effects of molecular additives on metal ion insertion and of inserted metal ions on dye-TiO2 interaction, the study will connect the fields that have largely been developing in parallel, even though dealing with similar elementary processes. This is expected to result in new insight and in the development of improved anodes for both photoelectrochemical solar cells and Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.
2.2. Specific Aims
This proposal aims to answer the following questions:
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How do molecular co-adsorbents affect the electronic structure of the dye-semiconductor interface and, consequently, electron injection into TiO2 and recombination of injected electrons with electrolyte species? We need to understand the trends in the effects of molecular co-adsorbents (specifically on dye adsorption configuration and energy and on energy level matching) depending on their molecular structure, including the influence of specific functional groups, such as nitrogen containing heterocycles. This knowledge will help design co-adsorbent-dye combinations enhancing the performance of mesoscopic solar cells.
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Do Li or Na counterions insert into and de-insert from the TiO2 anode under the photoelectrochemical cell's operating conditions? Specifically, does the metal ion concentration in TiO2 affect significantly the electronic structure, conduction, electron injection (short circuit current), diffusion and recombination (open circuit voltage)?
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Can the interaction with the metal ion change the phase of the nanostructured anode material? If so, is this a reversible change? This could have a profound effect on the durability of mesoscopic solar cells.
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How does this interaction depend on the kind of ion (e.g., Li vs. Na) and the specific polymorph of TiO2? How does it depend on the nanoparticle morphology and the surface indices of the facets approached by the ion? This includes a comparative study of anode structures (phases, facets) used in photoelectrochemical cells and those used as prospective anodes in Li or Na ion batteries. This knowledge will enable the design of anodes with desired insertion (for metal ion batteries), absorption and conduction band (for DSSC) properties.
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To what extent is it possible to decouple the design of co-adsorbents and counterions from the design of dyes? There are conflicting reports in the literature about this [32].
With the knowledge derived from studying points 1–5, one can produce structure-property relations, such as trends in the conduction band edge position, conductance, crystal structure and chemical potential depending on adsorbed or inserted electrolyte species. This knowledge is valuable in designing the anode material, as today, it is possible to experimentally control the crystal structure (i.e., anatase vs. rutile) and, to some extent, the exposed surfaces [79].
3. Detailed Proposal
3.1. Detailed Justification
3.1.1. Importance of Developing Functionalized TiO2 Anodes for Mesoscopic Solar Cells
Improved TiO2 anodes are needed to capitalize on recent advances in mesoscopic solar cells. Despite the abundance of Si, Si-based solar cells do suffer from several resource limitations for terawatt-scale deployment, such as the Ag electrode [5]. Other high-efficiency solar cell technologies also suffer from resource limitations [5] and/or require the use of large quantities of highly toxic materials (e.g., CdTe cells) [80].
There are no resource limitations facing organic dye-based photoelectrochemical cells [5], and they can be made with environment-friendly materials. Therefore, there is potential to achieve cost-effective and mass-producible solar cells. The technology was first proposed in 1991 [81], but it is only in the last couple of years that significant advances have been made, which make commercial dye-sensitized cells an achievable goal. Specifically, efficiencies of over 10% have been achieved with organic-based dyes and non-iodine electrolyte and also with a Pt-free cathode [82,83]. In fact, the current record efficiency cell employed both a non-iodine electrolyte, a non-Ru dye, and a co-adsorbent! [24] Further progress is needed to realize high-efficiency cells with long-term stability to make this technology commercial. Theoretical studies are necessary to guide cell designers to efficient chromophore-semiconductor-electrolyte combinations, but understanding of even elementary processes in photoelectrochemical cells is still fragmentary. Such little-understood processes include anode material interactions with electrolyte species.
The effect of electrolyte species on the anode performance is under-studied. Both efficiency and durability depend on the composition of the electrolyte. Various additives were found to change the solar cell's voltage and the rates of electron injection (desirable) and charge recombination (undesirable) [27,28,29,31]. There is, however, no unified theoretical description of an additive's effect on cell performance that would ultimately permit rational design of additive-dye pairs. Computational modeling has the ability to make such predictions. To achieve this, structure-property relations need to be derived for additives featuring key functional groups. This is one goal of this proposal.
3.1.2. Ion Insertion into a TiO2 Anode: A Common Yet Little Studied Phenomenon in Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells and Batteries
Another goal of this proposal is to determine the effect of electrolyte species on the structure of the nanocrystalline anode. This includes a study of Li+ and Na+ insertion into TiO2 nanostructures-candidate anodes for metal ion batteries. We also hypothesize that there is significant intercalation into the anode of some of the counterions commonly used in solar cell electrolytes.
For example, the Li+ or Na+ ions are often used to modify the conduction band edge of TiO2 in photoelectrochemical cells [30,31,32]. Now, the interaction of Li+ with TiO2 also governs the performance of anodes of Li ion batteries using the same material, which now attract more and more attention [34,39,84,85,86,87,88,89,90].
It is therefore expected that a significant metal ion insertion into the TiO2 nanostructured anode should also occur under the operating condition of solar cells, but is completely ignored in the prevailing understanding of the effect of counterions on the performance of photoelectrochemical cells. There is anecdotal evidence of the bronze TiO2 formed in an operating cell (Helmut Tributsch, private communication), and irreversible Li update by TiO2 in DSSC was also observed [50]. It was observed previously [49] that sodium uptake by anatase can lead to the destruction of crystal structure and formation of TiO2(B) when the Na/Ti ratio is about 0.2. At the same time, small (7 nm) particles of anatase were shown to maintain their crystal structure up to Li/Ti = 0.21 [36,89]. Clearly, there is ion-type and size dependence of insertion dynamics that must significantly affect the lifetime of both batteries and mesoscopic solar cells (which is the Achilles's heel of this technology). This phenomenon is largely under-studied and is a focus of this proposal.
3.2. Theoretical and Computational Analysis
The proposed project involves a systematic density-functional theory and molecular dynamics analysis of the interaction of electrolyte species (molecules and Li+, Na+ ions) with TiO2 anodes.
3.2.1. The Effect of Molecular Co-Adsorbates on the Electronic Properties of the Anode
First, the dependence of the anode band structure (conduction band minimum, the density of states) on the kind of co-adsorbent needs to be studied to identify structure property relations allowing for a prediction, e.g., of the position of a conduction band minimum from the molecular structure of the adsorbed molecule. This is important for the control of the balance between the injection rate and the open-circuit voltage [28,30,31,32].
Next, the effects of nuclear motions on the electronic properties need to be included. Almost all computational studies of photoelectrochemical cells and all such studies of molecular co-adsorbents were done at the most energetically favored configurations. However, we have shown that dye nuclear motions can cause orders of magnitude changes in the injection and recombination rates [54,55,56,91]. It is therefore expected that the nuclear dynamics of the co-adsorbent will also have a strong effect on electronic properties of the dye-electrolyte-semiconductor interface and, therefore, on solar cell performance. An analysis of the evolution of the electronic structure (e.g., the energy of the conduction band minimum) of a semiconductor-co-adsorbent and semiconductor-dye-co-adsorbent interface under the influence of room-temperature vibrations (including orientational motions of the molecule with respect to the surface) have to be performed (Figure 3).
Nitrogen-containing heterocyclic molecules have been shown to modify the open circuit voltage and the short circuit current depending on the molecular and surface structure [76]. We therefore suggest calculations of a series of imidazole derivatives adsorbed on TiO2 (such as imidazole, 4-phenylimidazole and 2-iso-propenylimidazole). Those will identify adsorption modes and trends in band structure of TiO2, depending on the molecular structure, molecular binding mode, kind of TiO2 surface (e.g., anatase (101) vs. rutile (110)), as well as on the inclusion of nuclear motions. For example, Figure 4 shows selected adsorption modes of three imidazole derivatives, and Figure 5 shows corresponding trends in the adsorption energy and in the energy of the functionalized TiO2 conduction band minimum.
This should be followed with similar calculations including both co-adsorbent molecules and selected organic dyes into the model (candidate dyes are aminophenyl acid [54], indoline and carbazole dyes [92]). While interactions between Ru dyes and some co-adsorbents have been theoretically analyzed [93], there are no systematic studies of organic dyes co-adsorbed with additives on a TiO2 surface. The dependence of the electronic properties of the interface on both dye and co-adsorbent molecular structures and any synergetic effects will thus be identified. We want to understand to what extent the design of co-adsorbents can be decoupled from the design of dyes, as this is an open and important design question [31,32,94].
3.2.2. The Effect of Metal Ion Insertion on the Electronic Properties of the Anode and of Co-Adsorbents on Insertion
Previous studies of Li diffusion into other anode materials [69,95] identified the dependence of lithiated structure and diffusion dynamics on surface indices. The uptake of Li and Na is therefore expected to depend on the phase and on the surface cut of TiO2. Alloy structures with different metal concentrations and their electronic structure can be determined using DFT for selected phases of TiO2 (such as anatase, rutile, brookite, (B)) with and without the presence of co-adsorbent molecules (such as imidazole derivatives). We want to understand what alloys and compounds are formed and how much the band structure, and possibly, the crystal structure, of the original anode change, due to the intake of the ions of different metals [90] and, also, in the presence of molecular species at the surface.
Furthermore, an analysis of barriers to diffusion and molecular dynamics simulations of lithiation/sodiation proceeding through different facets (surface indices) of these phases should be performed. We want to understand how facile insertion/de-insertion of each kind of ion (Li, Na) is and, therefore, how significant this phenomenon is in typical photoelectrochemical cells and what phases and surfaces of TiO2 are expected to be good anodes for metal ion batteries, especially non-Li batteries (such as Na-ion batteries). Energetics (which determines the battery voltage), barriers to diffusion (which determines rate capability), volume expansion and crystal structure stability (which determine cyclability and anode lifetime) will then be studied, and the molecular dynamics of metal ion uptake by different TiO2 nanomorphologies will be performed.
Conversely, the effect of adsorbed molecules on Li+ and Na+ insertion in battery anodes should be studied. There is mounting evidence that electrolyte molecules influence metal ion insertion dynamics in batteries, e.g., solvent adsorption and decomposition was found to influence the barrier of Li+ insertion into Si [75], and changing the solvent composition was found to enable Na+ and Mg2+ insertion into a Prussian blue analog [96]. This suggests the use of molecular co-adsorbents to influence insertion. Therefore, a systematic study on Li+ and Na+ insertion into the TiO2 of a series of molecular co-adsorbents, like those shown above, as well as electrolyte species (ethylene or propylene carbonate [97]) should be performed.
3.3. Interaction between Theory/Computation and Experiment
This computation-focused proposal can be implemented in close collaboration with experimental labs. The following measurements are proposed and can be done in most solar cell and battery labs:
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Investigation of electrochemical insertion of Li- and Na-ions into TiO2- anatase, rutile and bronze phases (standard battery characterization measurements of capacity-voltage curves at different rates) upon anode exposure to electrolytes with different Li/Na salt concentrations.
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Estimation of metal ion content based on the storage capacity obtained.
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Estimation of diffusion coefficients of Li and Na-ions in these structures, using GITT (galvanostatic intermittent titration technique), CV (cyclic voltammetry) and impedance studies.
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Evaluation of electronic conductivity on prelithiated TiO2 films.
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Experiments on photoelectrochemical cells with chemically pre-lithiated TiO2 anodes to investigate their performance.
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Measurements of the effect on electron injection and recombination rates in dye-sensitized cells of different co-adsorbent-dyes pairs (using, for example, spectroscopy and impedance techniques [98]). This, together with calculations, will be used to build structure-property relations. These relations will facilitate computational screening of co-adsorbents used to achieve a desired effect on the electronic structure of the dye-semiconductor interface, to facilitate injection and inhibit recombination.
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Measurements of I-V curves under different illumination intensities, transient photocurrent and photovoltage and AC impedance of solar cells utilizing different co-adsorbent molecules.
3.4. Expected Outcomes
The main expected outcome is computational discovery of TiO2-based materials (crystal phases, nano-sized objects of specific size and shape, surface cuts and molecular functionalizations), which best perform specific functions as anodes in batteries (high capacity and high rate metal ion insertion and de-insertion) and mesoscopic solar cells (control of conduction band edge, improved electron injection and inhibited recombination).
The proposed study will produce systematized knowledge of the interaction of molecular co-adsorbents and metal ions with TiO2 anodes of different structures. This will include trends of electronic properties of TiO2 anodes used in mesoscopic solar cells as a function of co-adsorbate and dye molecular structure. For atomic ions interacting with TiO2 anodes used in metal ion batteries and in mesoscopic solar cells, the effects of different TiO2 morphologies and different kinds of ions will be understood. Trends in key properties as a function of the initial crystal phase, surface cut, etc., will emerge. It is the knowledge of these trends that is important for the rational design of functional materials. Specifically, the resulting systematic knowledge of the properties of sodium-TiO2 co-adsorbate complexes or alloys is non-existent today. The knowledge produced in this study will therefore help in the design of better anodes for both solar cells and batteries.
With the above, anode-electrolyte species combinations with the best expected performance can be identified. The knowledge produced will therefore enable identification of promising candidate materials for both solar cells and batteries before extensive and costly experimentation is begun. The resulting cross-fertilization of the two fields will be beneficial for the development of better anode materials, through enhanced knowledge sharing, awareness and collaboration.
4. Conclusions
We proposed a computation-focused and experiment-supported study that would bridge the gap between the researches done so far in photoelectrochemical cells and battery communities and help design high-performance titania anodes for use in dye-sensitized cells and Li and Na batteries. The proposal's novelty and competitive advantage over studies done in these two separate communities is due to the following salient points.
4.1. A Systematic Theoretical Study to Derive Structure-Property Relations
Today, there does not exist a systematic understanding of the effect of electrolyte species on electronic structure and dynamics (insertion, electron injection and recombination) in photoelectrochemical cells and batteries. The complexity of nanoscale TiO2 materials and the difficulty observing them in situ call for a theoretical study proposed here. A computer model will have full control of the factors mentioned above (surface cut, crystal structure and size, etc.). For the first time, structure-property relations as a function of key molecular building blocks or atomic species interacting with TiO2 would be built. The trends of key electronic properties of the anode with the co-adsorbent molecular size and type of functional groups, with counterion concentration, etc., will permit rational design of electrolyte-anode interfaces with improved performance.
4.2. Inclusion of Effects Due to Nuclear Dynamics
We are the first who identified a large difference in electron injection and recombination rates in photoelectrochemical cells between their static estimates and averages over nuclear motions [54,55,56,91]. We were able to do that without performing the extremely costly joint electron-nuclei dynamics [99]. We expect a strong nuclear dynamics effect to be also present in the case of a TiO2 anode interacting with electrolyte species, such as co-adsorbent molecules. One of the advantages of our approach is the inclusion of molecular dynamics. Molecular dynamics should also be used to study the atomic counterion insertion into the anode.
4.3. Considering the Effect of Counterion Intercalation on the Anode
We propose a new focus on the effects due to intercalation of electrolyte species into TiO2 anodes. To the best of our knowledge, this brings for the first time under one roof the studies of Li and Na insertion into TiO2 in photoelectrochemical solar cells and in electrochemical batteries. The phenomenon is similar in both applications, and this study will help in the design of both types of devices. The effects due to ion insertion are usually ignored in the analysis of electrochemical solar cells; therefore, this study will significantly expand the knowledge about the performance of TiO2 anodes, specifically, of the evolution of their electronic properties when exposed to the electrolyte, which could degrade the performance. Remember that durability is the most important problem preventing a wide use of the photoelectrochemical cell technology. There is currently only fragmentary understanding of the effect of counterion insertion into TiO2 on solar cell performance. There exist experimental studies of only Li insertion into different phases and morphologies of TiO2 [100,101,102], including anatase [35,36,39,84,103,104,105,106] and rutile [38,107], commonly used for solar cell anodes. These studies have been focused on applications in Li ion batteries. Theoretical studies of the insertion of Li into TiO2 are scarce [34,87,107] and of Na, non-existent. Na+ is a commonly used counterion in photoelectrochemical cells [31,32] that could also form an alloy with TiO2 and possibly cause a phase transition and, in any case, a change in the electronic properties of the anode and in cell performance [49]. A study of sodiation is also necessary to understand if TiO2 is a good potential anode for sodium batteries—a promising large-scale storage technology [15]. We propose, for the first time, a comparative and systematic (i.e., for different counterions, surfaces, etc.) computational study of Li and Na insertion into TiO2 phases and facets that have been traditionally used in both dye-sensitized cells and batteries.
4.4. Impact of Nanosizing
Most previous computational studies of the interaction of co-adsorbent molecules or atoms/ions with TiO2 were done for bulk or for extended low-index surfaces [53,76,107]. It is known that nanosizing significantly changes the electronic properties of TiO2 anodes (including suppression of first order phase transitions and a large irreversible loss of Li capacity upon the first cycle) [38,84,90,107]. We propose to include modeling nano-sized materials via nanowires, nanoparticles or high-index surfaces, narrowing the gap between theory and experiment.
4.5. A Theoretical Study Tailored to Practice
The proposed theoretical studies can be conducted in close collaboration with experimental groups to focus on the computational analysis of systems, which are practically feasible. The proposed experimental measurements are doable in most solar cell and battery labs. It will be possible to implement, in practice, anode-electrolyte combinations, which will be identified by calculations as promising, as the analysis is done on materials already widely used in practice (e.g., titania nanoparticles or imidazole derivatives).
This work was supported by the AcRF Tier 1 grant R-265-000-430-133 by the Ministry of Education of Singapore and also by the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST) "Development of Organic Photovoltaics toward a Low-Carbon Society", Cabinet Office, Japan.
The authors also thank Dr. Kentaro Kawata of Merck Japan, Dr. Palani Balaya of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Prof. Hiroshi Segawa of the Research Center for Advances Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, and Prof. Koichi Yamashita of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, University of Tokyo, for fruitful discussions.
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|First Song Sequence In 'Chaand Chupa Badal Mein'
|Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:30
nowBuzz up!
Rajan Shahi's new offering to Star Plus, 'Chaand Chupa Badal Mein' is now gearing towards gripping more eye balls. After the successful launch it is tring to make audience glued to the sweet and sour style of story.
Chaand Chupa Badal Mein
To add more spice to it the show will soon see its first song sequence which will put more light on the love story and also could be said that it is the first stepping stone towards love track. As reported before by TellyCafe that soon a love triangle will take place in the show and considering the same, the three leads will start falling for each other.
A source says, "As now the love track has taken place in the show, the three leads will dream a song-sequence where they see themselves with their loved one. As there is a love triangle, both the girls Divya (Risshma Roshlani) and Nivedita (Neha Sargum) are falling for same boy Siddharth (Abhishek Tiwari) and without knowing exactly who has feelings for whom, they will have a dream song-sequence in rain on the song 'Ek Tara�' from the movie Wake Up Sid. All will end up seeing each other with their love."
We called Risshma and she confirms, "Yes, we have just finished the song-sequence but still some shots are remaining. As it is our first song-sequence, it was great experience to be wet in the show and shoot for whole day".
We also tried to call Abhishek but he remained unavailable while Neha was busy shooting.
Let's see what good this song sequence brings in for 'Chaand Chupa�'.
--Tejashree Bhopatkar/ TellyCafe.com
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