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The Mansfield Library on your iPhone or other devices30 November 2009
There was a great article in today's Missoulian about Sean Sullivan's iPhone app for Questia, an online research library. The article pointed out that the app costs 99 cents to download and that Questia costs $9.99 for two weeks' access or $99 for a year. However, what the article didn't point out was that you, […]
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Library Website Usability Study Presented22 July 2009
A group of Mansfield librarians were able to present the results of the usability study which was completed just this past spring. The poster presentation is available as a PDF document.
Your Research Privacy and NETIDs15 July 2009
We've received questions recently regarding whether the library is tracking computer use by NETID. You can read the full statement on library user's right to privacy on our policy page. The bottom line? The library does not keep track of any patron's research activities.
New Materials RSS Feed now available13 March 2008
We are pleased to announce that we now have RSS feeds available for our new library materials, broken down by subject area. You can add them to your feed reader by visiting this page or by clicking on the "New Materials RSS Feeds" link in the library catalog.
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Issue of the Month: September 2007Federated Searching Jennie Burroughs, Assistant Professor Government Documents Librarian (email@example.com) In August, the Mansfield Library launched a new service: 360 Search. You can access this service if you click on the "Databases: Search by Subject" or "Databases: A-Z" links on the library home page. 360 Search is an example of […]
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Recently library patrons may have noticed difficulty accessing materials using their NetID. Please be aware that your password needs to be reset every 180 days, beginning the last time you updated your password. If you're having trouble accessing services, please visit the UM Campus NetID Page for instructions on managing your password. Services affected by […]
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If you have always wondered where we keep the videos, whether you can play that movie for your class, if we have sound effects cds for your projects, or anything else involving media, we have created a new Guide to Media at the Mansfield Library to help answer these and other questions. If you have […]
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We have a number of real problems with the same quality about them. Public education, for example, seems to have collapsed in direct proportion to how much its conservative critics dislike teachers' unions. The response has been a number of approaches that place the blame on all teachers, who must now be told how to teach, instead of finding successful teachers upon which to model.
Every now and then we come across ideas that we support or criticize because we just feel that way. Something is right or wrong about an idea and we can't, at first, say why other than it seems to be the right or wrong thing to do. This column will be about such an idea that I believe to be wrong at face value. That idea is pre-kindergarten as part of the school system. It seems that the idea is to provide children about 4 years of age the opportunity to garner academic and social skills that children are, apparently, lacking when they start kindergarten. The assumption is that kindergarten — full-day kindergarten, no less — is no longer able to do the things it should because parents are not up to the job of raising their own children to prepare them for the task.
I see a logical but dangerous precedent being set here. Which other grade levels on the way to graduation will ask for an extra grade to be inserted to make up for deficiencies in the previous grade? Will we have children graduating at age 30 to facilitate the process? Why are you laughing?
As it stands, an extra year or two of third grade is being contemplated for those who don't meet testing standards. Will the same teachers teach the students who are held back? Will we see the insertion of a shadow faculty, lurking around the third-grade wing lest the regular staff dare to slack off? And, again, will we do this at each important point — fifth, eighth and eleventh grades — and have students repeat the grade for failure to test out well?
This is getting terribly complicated and it all starts with pre-K.
True, not all families are fortunate enough to have one parent stay at home each day. But the grandmothers and other family members that fill in aren't letting 4-year-olds go without nurturing. Not to mention the superb day-care businesses extant here in Greater — and they don't come much — Las Cruces. The time that our four youngest spent with Miss Jeannie at Discovery on Farney was magnificent, and our kids were special-needs specific, ranging from FAS through towering rage. I'd hate to see the failure to revamp and implement the kindergarten curriculum result in good, skilled people losing their livelihoods and businesses
I read a lot of articles about this, searching for some compelling reason to reconsider my position. Proponents look to the fact that certain things — like patience, persistence and the ability to stay on task — are developed in children very early on and can be enhanced, if not taught, in a good early education program. This is to make up for inadequate parenting or a bad commercial day care.
This will not, however, improve reading or math readiness so much as prepare a child for the rugged demands of kindergarten and that which follows. It leads me to think that it's replacing kindergarten and that leaves something out of line.
Because the improvements need to be made in the family first, especially support to young mothers, in lieu of the male or some additional adult figure staying with the family, and setting the ideals of hard work and refining the mind. And we never account for native intelligence, assuming that all children are untapped fonts of wisdom.
Then there's the real reason so many supports pre-K: State-sponsored, high quality day care that yanks 4-year-olds into The Great Machine and reduces cost for all-comers. That is the fact that pre-K provides another precious year of baby-sitting without the inconvenience of having to pay for it directly. In fact, it would be another cost shared by all taxpayers, which is why the president went to such lengths as to refer to two studies from the '60s and '70s to assure us that Pre-K had financial value in the State of the Union address.
And if people grow fond of this, can pre-pre-K be far behind? It's just not right.
Bill Varuola is longtime resident of Las Cruces who recently retired as a teacher at the Doña Ana County Juvenile Detention Center.


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The Town of Richwood would be well served to spend some of that video bingo money it counts on as revenue for the services of a money manager.
And then, the mayor and Board of Aldermen need to take that manager's advice. Clearly, some fiscal expertise could be beneficial.
More than 20 Richwood employees did not receive their most recent paycheck, due July 2, because the town lacked the funds.
Officials blamed a delay in video bingo payments to the town for failing to meet its most recent payroll.
The town collects 25 percent on video bingo profits within town limits. Richwood uses video bingo profits along with property and sales taxes to support town operations.
Richwood collects almost $400,000 annually from charitable gaming funds. The town collects almost $250,000 annually from sales taxes and $75,000 from property taxes.
Town officials expect to receive video bingo payments this week, so employees should receive payment for last week's pay period by Friday.
Their failure to make payroll is inexcusable.
No government should be so close to the fiscal cliff that a tiny blip in cash flow would overdraw its bank account on payday.
Richwood is not alone in municipal governments facing cash-flow challenges at various times of the year.
But they forecast that it's going to happen and make arrangements through saving during flush times or by employing short-term borrowing to be able to fulfill basic obligations.
The town should strive to have some funds in reserve for times like this.
According to "American City and County's" John Incorvaia, writing about the issue of municipal cash reserves: "To formulate reserve levels, cities can choose to allocate enough money to cover a specific number of days of operating expenses, or they can allocate a flat percentage of operating revenues. In the former case, a minimum of one to two months of operating expenses should be considered, and in the latter instance, a minimum level of five percent to 10 percent should be targeted."
Several members of the town's Board of Aldermen have expressed dismay at the Richwood's failure to meet its payroll. But they need to dig in and find some ways to save money to build a reserve to avoid future payroll issues.
Meanwhile, dedicated employees have remained on the job on the promise of a paycheck sometime this week.
We're not sure how long they'll continue to be dedicated to the town if the town is not dedicated to paying them on time.
The editorials in this column represent the opinions of The News-Star's editorial board, composed of President and Publisher David B. Petty, Executive Editor Kathy Spurlock and community representatives French Smith, Andrew Osakue and Georgiann Potts.


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So much BS...and hot air coming out of Washington!
Let's put some nuclear power stations in Chappaqua, Hamptons, Aspen, Martha's Vineyard and San Francisco.
Was there ever a Democratic plan ever offered that did not include the phrase "...by raising taxes on..." ?
Government is not the answer. Senator Clinton's energy plan sounds a lot like her medical plan.
If government isn't the answer, who do you suggest takes the lead on new energy technologies? The private sector has had since the Nixon admin to come up with an answer and what have they accomplished? And what exactly are the similarities between this and the health plan of 15 years ago except that now-Sen Clinton worked on both?
Hillary Rotten Clinton is recycling Jimmie peanut brain Carter Taxes on the terrible Oil Companies. Sounds like Putin when he re-nationalized the Russian Oil fields. The Tax and spend Democrat Communists political party wants to confiscate all profits so they can increase their wealth as Billy Jeff Blythe has come into the White House without a pot to pee in and out with a forty million unreported income.
Hillary, doing her best imitation of a Leprehcan, discussing "Green" alternatives.
Of course she is still suggesting taking "Oil Profits" as her method of controlling business by government for the greater good of the "people."
Sounds more like socialist mantra than sound free market policy and American ingenuity.
Where have the hearings been on what had to be a concerted effort by the oil companies to drive prices down in the last months (until the last couple of weeks). Since the Demos were all over the oil companies for the price hikes, they must have also been behind the price drops. Once again a liberal Democrat thinks we can tax our way out of a problem. And who does she think will be paying the "fee" on those windfall profits, anyway. Does she have any knowledge of economics?
The global warming issue is being used as a basis for a huge government intervention in the free market, complete with increased control, higher taxes, and a belief that government has the right answers to our future energy needs. If enacted, such policies will lead to great economic penalties over the coming decades. Not only are the policy proposals deeply flawed, their rationale of an imminent climate catastrophe is simply wrong.
The cute thing is, so many of the snotty rich see the word Tax and immediately freak out. It wouldn't matter if a Democrat came up with a fool proof plan to save the universe. If the words, 'increase taxes,' were anywhere in the plan, Republicans would scream that it was a bad idea. And to think I used to wonder why other countries think we're so selfish.
Typical Clinton deception.
First, we have nothing but vague platitudes.
Second, we have the Democrats favorite solution for everything: higher taxes. Of course, this would only hurt consumers as well as hinder true efforts to create alternative sources of energy.
Third, the worst of all: we have the fact that Hillary Clinton can never be trusted. Even if she had a good idea, there is no guarantee she would implement it, because she is so comfortable with deception. Hillary is the worst of all worlds: cold, cruel, deceptive, totally self-serving,devoid of any good ideas, and dedicated only to expanding her own power, which means an expansion of govt power and intervention.
No thanks.
..... as one of the "snotty rich"-- you know--that group of people who make enough to pay taxes(two kids, college loans, mortgage) but not enough to pay someone to help me avoid them(Bill, Hillary, Tedddy),one just has to wonder why Democrats don't embrace tax cuts to pay for their "save the universe" programs........ oh, yeah, their target audience either dosen't pay taxes so there is nothing to cut or they are the elite who hire lawyers to.... not pay taxes.......
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The winner will likely face Democrat Bob Kerrey in November.
The GOP candidates have hammered their conservative credentials. Fischer received endorsements from 2008 vice presidential candidate and tea party favorite Sarah Palin, as well as Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.
Stenberg claims endorsements from tea party leaders Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Bruning was
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After months of excitement and anticipation, Lisa Ballantyne's brilliant debut novel, The Guilty One, is now available to buy.
A book that is already receiving rave reviews around the world – from book buyers to booksellers, press, peers and international publishers – we've got a feeling you're going to love it too.
In the video below, Lisa tells us a little more about the book, its characters and how it feels to become a published author:
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A little boy was found dead in a children's playground…
Daniel Hunter has spent years defending lost causes as a solicitor in London. But his life changes when he is introduced to Sebastian, an eleven-year-old accused of murdering an innocent young boy.
As he plunges into the muddy depths of Sebastian's troubled home life, Daniel thinks back to his own childhood in foster care – and to Minnie, the woman whose love saved him, until she, too, betrayed him so badly that he cut her out of his life.
But what crime did Minnie commit that made Daniel disregard her for fifteen years? And will Daniel's identification with a child on trial for murder make him question everything he ever believed in?
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London - European stocks notched up their seventh rise in eight sessions on Friday as firmer economic growth in Germany and France fuelled expectations of a rebound in corporate profits in Europe this year.
The FTSEurofirst 300 was up 0.5 percent at 1,332.04 points by 16:14 SA time, with Italy's FTSE MIB, up 1.7 percent.
It was outperforming on the prospect of a new centre-left leader in the country believed to be committed to reforms.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index, up more than 5 percent from an early February low, has recovered around three quarters of what it lost during the recent emerging markets sell-off.
The French economy grew 0.3 percent in the final quarter of 2013, slightly beating expectations and boosted by corporate investment, and German economic growth unexpectedly accelerated to 0.4 percent on a rise in exports and capital investment, data showed.
Meanwhile, Italy's economy grew marginally at the end of last year for the first time since the middle of 2011.
The broadly buoyant data overshadowed a surprise drop in US retail sales in January and data showing more Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, albeit driven by temporary adverse weather conditions.
German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp rose 3.9 percent, among the top risers on the FTSEurofirst 300, after a smaller loss at its Brazilian steel mill helped it post a better-than-expected quarterly operating profit.
Such bright spots belied a lacklustre showing in the current European quarterly earnings season.
Half way through, only 58 percent of companies have beaten or met earnings expectations, while half have missed revenue expectations, according to Thomson Reuters Starmine data.
Analysts are, however, confident of a pick-up in earnings later in the year.
"We've got some better economic figures coming out, some more revenue streams, some more jobs basically, not lots but more than last year. That should mean that with companies lean and mean, with margins high, that you get some decent earnings growth," said Philippe Gijsels, head of research at BNP Paribas Fortis Global Markets in Brussels.
Gijsels anticipated 10 percent growth in European earnings over 2014, and a corresponding 10 percent rise in the market.
Italy's FTSE MIB advanced after Prime Minister Enrico Letta said he would tender his resignation on Friday after his Democratic Party (PD) called for him to step aside to make way for a new government.
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Aggressive care to the end: Who pays'
Every night before closing his eyes, while lying on a hospital bed in his living room, Francis Massco pleaded to his wife of almost 60 years: "Pray that God takes me home tonight."
Three years after a diagnosis of prostate cancer, followed by costly, invasive treatments, Massco, 82, decided in February against more chemotherapy.
"I wouldn't be mad if I fell over right now," he told the Tribune-Review last month.
The one-time corporate attorney resisted a little-known tenet of medicine: Hospitals and doctors make more money by aggressively treating terminal patients than by keeping them free of pain and letting them die with dignity. Some doctors derisively call the practice "flogging" — as in, beating a dead horse.
Medicare, which paid most of Massco's bills and is the nation's largest health insurance program, spends about $113 billion a year, or a quarter of its budget for people 65 and older, to treat patients during the last year of their lives. As lawmakers argue about ways to cut costs, many experts say the government wastes billions of dollars on unnecessary care for dying patients.
This is not about death panels, the fictitious health arbiters that supposedly would decide whether there's money to pay for Grandma's care.
"It's all about patients deciding the care they get," said Dr. David Goodman, co-director of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, a New Hampshire medical policy group.
Doctors and hospitals typically err in favor of aggressive, expensive care, according to Goodman, other experts and medical studies. Too often, physicians fail to ask patients how they want to die. Then, even when people choose to die without intensive care, their doctors might order it anyway.
"Doctors and hospitals shouldn't decide unilaterally the care patients get, especially when it's in their own financial interests," Goodman said.
Experts said doctors often overlook palliative care, an approach that aims to relieve pain and suffering. In a 2008 simulation study at the University of Pittsburgh involving a mock patient — described as a 78-year-old man with cancer and shortness of breath who wanted palliative care rather than intensive treatments — fewer than half the 27 doctors involved followed the patient's wishes. Among those who admitted the man to an intensive care unit, three-quarters acknowledged they knew that went against the patient's wishes.
It's impossible to remove money from the discussion because doctors are paid more to treat — not talk, said Dr. Gail Gazelle, assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School and medical director for a hospice agency in Norville, Mass.
"Physicians are reimbursed much, much, much, much less for actually communicating," she said. "It's very scary, and I don't think it serves patients' needs as well as it could. It's very problematic."
If a doctor decides on aggressive treatments, that determination should be based on medical judgment and not on how much money can be made, said Dr. Charles Geyer Jr., director of the Allegheny Cancer Center at Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital.
"Someone who's doing that (for money) is not providing the service that physicians are supposed to be providing," Geyer said. "That would be a cynical view, I would hope, of what really goes on."
AGH at the top
Allegheny General ranked first among 137 cancer hospitals and academic medical centers nationwide for the days Medicare patients with cancer spent in intensive care during their last month of life, according to data the Dartmouth Atlas released in November.
The hospital ranked near the top for admitting those patients to intensive care, for giving them life-sustaining treatments and for having a high percentage who saw 10 or more doctors in their final six months.
Some oncologists might have a more aggressive perspective, Geyer said, but they do so because they believe something about the patient's condition could be reversed. The problem with studies such as the Dartmouth Atlas, he said, is that they look at data but miss the individual patient who recovers to live another six months.
"It's more about clinical judgment," Geyer said. "We do what we do because we genuinely believe that it helps people."
AGH was not the only Pennsylvania hospital that favored aggressive treatment practices. The Dartmouth Atlas ranked Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Montgomery County, and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia among the top five cancer centers in the country for the number of days that dying Medicare cancer patients spent in intensive care. Lankenau ranked high for the percent of cancer patients seeing 10 or more doctors in the six months before death.
Officials at Lankenau and Thomas Jefferson said they provide hospice services and work with patients and their families to determine care based on their wishes.
Penn State Hershey Medical Center ranked among the top third of the nation's cancer centers for some aggressive end-of-life treatments. A spokesman declined comment.
To make money, hospitals must do more than put patients in beds, Dr. Christopher Olivia, president and CEO of West Penn Allegheny Health System, told the Trib.
"If we admitted somebody and never did anything, any procedures or the like, we couldn't charge you," Olivia said. "You could stay at the Ritz in New York and get a better hotel rate and have a nicer bed than what you get from us."
At UPMC's Presbyterian and Shadyside hospitals, the Dartmouth Atlas study found aggressive end-of-life care occurred less often. Even before the medical system started a program this year to talk with patients about palliative care, Medicare patients spent more days in hospice — nearly doubling over five years to 16 days per patient in 2007.
"If you stop doing aggressive care," said Dr. Steven Shapiro, UPMC's chief medical and scientific officer, "then the hospital or the physicians potentially could be hurt. But that's OK."
Enough is enough
Francis Massco found out in 2008 he had prostate cancer during a routine visit to his primary care doctor. Like many people diagnosed with cancer, he fought back, undergoing five chemotherapy treatments and 10 sessions of radiation on his right hip. Medicare and supplemental insurance covered his medical bills.
He planned to get more radiation in December at Allegheny General when he went into cardiac arrest. He recovered and returned to the hospital a few weeks later to have a titanium rod placed in his weakened hip. Afterward, in recovery, he realized death was inevitable.
Before going back to the doctor, Massco sat in the family room of his O'Hara house and told his wife he did not want more cancer treatments.
"Don't let him talk me into anything," Massco said of his doctor, with tears welling in his eyes.
"I agree," she responded.
Massco enrolled in Forbes Hospice. Instead of receiving treatments to fight the cancer, palliative care kept him comfortable and pain-free. His medicines were limited to painkillers and appetite stimulants. Nurses visited him at home twice a week and a respite worker stayed with him when his wife needed to run errands.
Months after ending cancer treatments, 70 pounds lighter and barely able to walk, Massco believed in his decision.
His wife, Carmel, said each person must make the choice — whether to battle an illness until the last moment or choose palliative care.
"I don't think anybody can say one way or the other," she said, "but I think you just come to a point when you just know, enough is enough."
River of money
End-of-life care costs vary widely around the United States.
Medicare spent $63,870 per patient in Pittsburgh during the last two years of life, slightly above the national average of $60,694, according to Dartmouth Atlas data for 2007. By comparison, the government insurer spent $94,000 per patient in Miami and as little as $45,000 in Syracuse, N.Y.
If end-of-life costs everywhere were the same as in Syracuse, Medicare would save about $17 billion a year.
Higher costs come with extra care. Compared to Syracuse, dying patients in Miami were about twice as likely to spend time in intensive care or to have 10 or more doctors.
"Money is an unconscious influence that we as professionals can't pretend doesn't exist," Goodman said. "It's like being in a slow-moving but powerful river, where the current is hard to overcome. You might not even be aware of it, but you can't deny that it's there."
Some differences can be explained by sicker or older patients in one region over another, said Jack Hadley, a health services researcher at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. But spending on treatments without medical value — such as end-of-life cancer care that doesn't prolong life in a meaningful way — happens everywhere, he said.
"Where payments for a specific procedure or a particular test are high, where there's a lot of implied profitability, the physicians are more likely to do them," Hadley said.
Even when doctors do not focus on money, hospital systems often do, said Dr. Brenda Sirovich, an internist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., and a researcher at Dartmouth College.
"I do think that there are explicit directives that are given," Sirovich said. "You know, 'We're in the red. If we don't do more orthopedic surgery and more MRIs this year, we're not gonna be able to survive... .' "
Answered prayers
One evening in mid-May, Massco's bedtime prayer was answered.
He'd felt weaker and asked for his daughter, Marci Hudson, who lives more than 200 miles away in Perrysburg, Ohio. He waited for her to arrive, and they talked. He called her "sweetie pie," as he always did. Then he drifted away.
Massco died May 16 the way he lived: on his terms. No machines worked to keep him breathing, and he didn't have radiation burns on his skin. He was at peace, his wife said.
"We were happy with our decision," she said. "We're glad we did what we did."
At Massco's funeral Mass in St. Joseph Parish in O'Hara, Hudson sat next to her mother and prayed. When the service concluded, she stood up and spoke about her father in a firm voice.
"Even in death, he made life's journey most pleasant," she said. "It will be difficult to navigate my life without him."
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Pritzker for Chipperfield?
AJ readers believe it is time David Chipperfield won the Pritzker Prize, according to an online survey
Polled last week ahead of the official decision to hand this year's Laureate to Japanese architect Toyo Ito, the AJ's online readership plumped for David Chipperfield to land architecture's answer to the 'Oscars'.
The British architect, who was presented with a RIBA Gold Medal in 2011, received 18.3 per cent, beating this year's actual winner, Japanese architect Toyo Ito, into second place.
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Vacant Spaces into Vibrant Places
Founded in 2010, the Center for Community Progress is the only national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization solely dedicated to building a future in which entrenched, systemic blight no longer exists in American communities. The mission of Community Progress is to ensure that communities have the vision, knowledge, and systems to transform blighted, vacant, and other problem properties into assets supporting neighborhood vitality.
As a national leader on solutions for blight and vacancy, Community Progress serves as the leading resource for local, state, and federal policies and best practices that address the full cycle of property revitalization, from blight prevention, through the acquisition and maintenance of problem properties, to their productive reuse. Community Progress provides technical assistance to communities nationwide, hosts the national Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference, and offers numerous other resources and services to help communities transform blighted properties into community assets. Major support for Community Progress is generously provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
New release: Land Banks and Land Banking, Second Edition
The groundbreaking Land Banks and Land Banking, by Frank S. Alexander, is back with a new second edition that features fresh research and insights for practitioners and policy-makers.
National Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference Comes to Baltimore in 2016
On September 28-30, 2016, approximately 1,000 people will descend on Baltimore, Maryland, for the seventh national Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference.


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The SnS nanowire arrays have been successfully synthesized by the template-assisted pulsed electrochemical deposition in the porous anodized aluminum oxide template. The investigation results showed that the as-synthesized nanowires are single crystalline structures and they have a highly preferential orientation. The ordered SnS nanowire arrays are uniform with a diameter of 50 nm and a length up to several tens of micrometers. The synthesized SnS nanowires exhibit strong absorption in visible and near-infrared spectral region and the direct energy gapEgof SnS nanowires is 1.59 eV.
Keywords:SnS nanowires; Pulse electrodeposition; Optical properties
Semiconductor nanostructures have been attracting worldwide attention due to their exceptional electrical, optical, and magnetic properties, and their potential applications in nanoscale electronics, photonics, and functional materials as well [1-3]. Among them, tin sulfide (SnS) has sparked intensive interest for its semiconducting and optical properties. SnS, as one of the important IV–VI group semiconductors, exhibits both the p- and n-type conduction [4], has an energy band gap of about 1.3 eV [5]. Normally, SnS is composed of double layers of tightly bound Sn–S atoms and the bonding between layers are extremely weak Van der Vaals forces, which has an orthorhombic structure [6]. Additionally, SnS has the advantage of its constituent elements being abundant in nature and not posing any health and environmental hazards. Therefore, SnS has a big potential to be used as solar absorber in a thin film solar cell and near-infrared detector [4,5], as photovoltaic materials [7], and as a holographic recording medium [8]. Therefore, single crystalline SnS nanowires reported in this paper are expected to offer enhanced properties. Therefore, it is important to investigate practical synthesis routes for novel SnS nanostructures, especially in single crystalline.
Crystalline tin sulfides have been prepared by a variety of methods, such as direct vapor transport method [9], stoichiometric composition technique [10], physical vapor transport method [11], and Bridgman–Stockbarger technique [12]. In recent years, thin films of SnS have been investigated widely due to their applications in photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical solar cells. SnS thin films have been prepared by spray pyrolytic deposition [13], electrochemical deposition [4,5], chemical vapor deposition [14,15], and chemical bath deposition [16]. To our knowledge, preparation of novel wire-like SnS nanostructures has been reported sparsely. Panda et al. [17] has reported surfactant-assisted synthesis of SnS nanowires grown on tin foils and SnS nanorods were reported by Biswas et al. [18]. We had used the anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template synthesized from some metal sulfide nanowire arrays [19,20] and in this paper, we have presented single crystalline SnS nanowires prepared by template-assisted electrochemical deposition.
The highly ordered porous AAO films were prepared by anodizing an aluminum foil (99.999%) in an acid solution using a two-step anodizing process, which could be seen in the Refs. [19-22].
A three-electrode cell was used for pulse electrochemical deposition: a saturated calomel electrode (SCE) as the reference electrode, an AAO template with aluminum substrate as the working electrode (cathode), and a platinum sheet as the contrary electrode (anode). The deposition area was about 1 × 2 cm2. An aqueous bath containing 30 mM SnCl2 and 100 mM Na2S2O3 was used. The pH value of the solution was around 1.8 before deposition. The temperature of the solution was kept at 10 °C. The potential applied to the cathode was pulsed-form, its "on" potential Von was 10 V and "off" potential Voff was 0 V, both "on" time and "off" time were 10 s in all the voltage conditions. More details of the experiment can be seen in the Refs. [4,20,21]. Deposition period was 5 min. After deposition experiment, the deposited sample was washed softly in pure water, and naturally dried in air. All the chemicals used were analytical grade reagents and the water used was deionized distilled water.
The phase purity of as-synthesized product was examined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) using Rigaku Rint-2000 diffractometer with monochromatized CuKαradiation (λ = 0.15405 nm). The nano/microstructure of the SnS product was further observed by transmission electron microscope (TEM) and field-emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) with an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) analysis attachment, which were performed on a Hitachi Model H-800 (200 kV) and a field-emission microscope (S-4800, 15 kV), respectively. The high resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) image and the corresponding selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern were taken by a JEOL-2010 TEM with an accelerating voltage of 200 kV. UV–VIS–NIR absorption spectra were measured at room temperature with a Cary 5000 UV–VIS–NIR spectrometer.
Results and Discussion
The typical XRD pattern of the sample which etched for 5 h is shown in Fig. 1. The peaks at about 30.44°, 32.06°, 54.42°, and 64.14° were assigned to (101), (040), (240), and (212) diffraction of orthorhombic SnS, respectively. All the peaks can be indexed to orthorhombic SnS with lattice constants: a = 4.34 Å, b = 11.14 Å, and c = 3.96 Å, which is in good agreement with the values from the standard card (JCPDS No. 39-0354). The strong and sharp diffraction peaks indicate that the product is well crystallized. It can be seen that the major peak (101) is strongly dominating other peaks indicating the preferred orientation. The sharp and narrow (101) peaks indicate that the nanowires are highly crystalline and consist of only a single compositional phase. XRD analysis detected no impurities such as SnO2and SnS2.
Figure 1. XRD patterns of the SnS nanowire arrays after etching time of 5 h
Figure 2a shows a typical SEM micrograph of the AAO template, anodized using 0.3 M H2SO4electrolyte at 0 °C and a voltage of 20 V. It was found that the nanopores of the AAO template are uniform and highly ordered with average diameters of 50 ± 4 nm and the interpore distance is about 30 nm. In addition, the varied diameters and lengths of nanopores can be obtained by adjusting the varied acid, anodizing time, and anodizing temperature. Figure 2b–d show the SEM images of SnS nanowires grown in AAO template. These photographs indicate that the nanowires are uniformly distributed, highly ordered, and parallel to each other. Few microscopic defects are found in these wires. Figure 2b, c is a planform, from which we can find several clusters of nanowires. The clusters may result from the situation that the nanowires do not cover by the framework of AAO template but stand free incompletely. When the alumina on the top of AAO template is dissolved away, the nanowires that embedded in the template are released gradually and incline to agglutinate together. It is conceivable that the surface energy of these nanowires causes this interesting phenomenon. Figure 2b also shows that SnS nanowires are abundant, uniform, and highly ordered in the large area. Figure 2d reveals a cross-section where the alumina matrix of the AAO template has been partially dissolved away. It can be seen that the nanowires deposited inside the nanochannel of the AAO template are parallel, tidily aligned, and uniformly distributed. It is correlative to that the AAO template had an array of densely parallel nanoholes arranged in a hexagonal form. From these figures it can be estimated that the length of the nanowires is about several tens of micrometers. It corresponds with the thickness of the AAO template which we used.
Figure 2. SEM images of AAO template and SnS nanowire arrays.aTypical SEM image of AAO template.bandcThe top view in a low magnification.dSEM image of a typical cross-section
TEM images of SnS nanowires formed within the AAO template are shown in Fig. 3a, b. Figure 3a shows that the SnS nanowires cross and overlap with each other, and Fig. 3b shows that the diameter of the SnS nanowires is about 50 nm. It's diameter is approximately equal to that of the nanochannels of the employed AAO template. These nanowires are uniformly distributed, which indicates that the alumina matrix is dissolved completely. The nanostructure of the SnS nanowires was further investigated with SAED. The SAED pattern (Fig. 3c) taken from a single nanowire, indicates that the SnS nanowires are a good single crystalline. The HRTEM image of a single SnS nanowire is given in Fig. 3d. Seen from this image, the lattice fringes of the SnS are clear and uniform, and additionally it confirmed that these single crystalline SnS nanowires are of high quality. The measured spacing of the crystallographic planes shown in Fig. 3d is 0.295 nm, corresponding to the value of (101) planes of the orthorhombic SnS nanowires.
Figure 3. TEM images of AAO template and SnS nanowire arrays.aThe sample was etched for 10 h.bThe SnS nanowires with a diameter of about 50 nm.cThe SAED pattern taken from the nanowires in (b).dThe HRTEM image of the SnS nanowires in (b)
Energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) analysis reveals that the product is composed of stannum and sulfur, and the ratio of the S atom and Sn atom is 1:0.985, which just accords with the stoichiometric ratio of SnS.
The representative optical absorption spectrum of the SnS nanowires synthesized by template-assisted electrochemical deposition is shown in Fig. 4a. This figure indicated that the SnS nanowires have high absorption in the range of ultraviolet, and the absorption coefficient is above the 70%. The absorption reduces rapidly with the increase in the wavelength, and the absorption is very small or becomes zero when the wavelength is above 800 nm. The absorption coefficient α, of SnS nanowires, was calculated from the average absorption index (A) as [23]. The spectral behavior of absorption coefficient as a function of energy, hv, is shown in Fig. 4b. SnS nanowires have high absorption coefficient (>105 cm−1) in the wavelength range from 400 to 800 nm.
Figure 4. Optical properties of SnS nanowires:ais the optical absorption spectrum andbis the dependence of absorption coefficient on photon energy
To determine the energy band gap, Eg, and the type of optical transition responsible for this intense optical absorption, and the absorption spectrum was analyzed using the equation for the near-edge absorption [4,5].
where, A is a constant and n characterizes the transition process. We can see n = 2 and 2/3 for direct allowed and forbidden transitions, respectively, and n = 1/2 and 1/3 for indirect allowed and forbidden transitions, respectively.
Figure 5 shows curves of (αhν)2 versus hν of the SnS nanowires. The curve has a good straight line fit with higher energy range above the absorption edge, indicating a direct optical transition near the absorption edge. Based on Fig. 5, the direct energy gap Eg of the sample has been calculated as 1.59 eV, which is higher than the literature value of SnS bulk or films [4,5,13,16]. The increased band gap values of SnS nanowires which was compared to the bulk material, do not manifest quantum size effects. However, the estimated average single crystal nanowire diameter was 50 nm. The absence of size quantization effects may be attributed to the very small Bohr radius for the SnS. And it is well-known that Bohr radius of SnS should be smaller than 7 nm. The nanowires diameter is far greater than the Bohr radius and it can be suggested that the increased band gap values do not manifest quantum size effects [24,25]. The energy band gap at 1.59 eV detected in our previous study may be attributed to the surface effect of the carriers in the semiconductor nanowires. The lattice distortion inducing a smaller lattice constant or surface lattice defects will lead to a size dependent enlargement of the band gap, which results in a blue shift in the absorbance onset, as observed in this work.
Figure 5. The curves of (αhν)2vs.hνfor the SnS nanowires
The low-toxicity SnS nanowire arrays have been successfully synthesized using the template-assisted pulsed electrochemical deposition in the AAO template. The XRD pattern indicates that the nanowires are composed of SnS phase and have a highly preferential (101) orientation. The sample obtained in our experiment forms a stable orthorhombic superstructure. The TEM images show that the diameter of the SnS nanowires is about 50 nm and length up to several tens of micrometers. The SAED shows that the product is single crystalline structure. EDS result indicates that the ratio of S atom and Sn atom in our samples is 1:0.985, which just accords with the stoichiometric ratio of SnS. The synthesized SnS nanowires exhibit strong absorption in the visible and near-infrared spectral region. The direct energy gapEgof the SnS nanowires has been calculated as 1.59 eV, and this experimental optical band gap value is the evidence for the quantum confinement of the SnS nanowires.
This work was partially supported by the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of China (No. 50825101), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50671087). The correspondence author (D. L. Peng) acknowledges the Minjiang Chair Professorship Program released by Fujian Province of P.R. China for financial support.
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Was a long weekend. Yesterday I went and picked up a new mare for my daughter. 8 hours on the road and then chores when I got home, I'm still tired. She belonged to a family I gave lessons to all 3 of their girls until they grew up and went off to college. Some life changes have landed her at my place.
Will get better pics soon, promise!
Meet EZ, 17 yr old QH mare. She's done a bit of everything and done it well. Has been successful in the show pen in WP, Trail, HMS, SMS, low level reining, Western Riding, barrels, poles, flags and also goes english but it isn't her strong suit. She will be my daughter's 4-H/starter horse and I will probably use her for lessons a bit as well. Need to put a few lbs on her and get her legged up. Can't wait to see the kiddo showing her this summer :)
She's surprisingly lazy for a predominantly speed bred horse. She's one that can be contested and turn right around and work a pleasure class. She'll be great for M to use in versatility. While we all know his offspring didn't amount to much, my kiddo thinks it's pretty cool that Secretariat is on her AQHA papers. She's obsessed with the movie so saying she is excited is a bit of an understatement
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Americana Vineyards, Valentine's Day Dinner at the Crystal Lake Cafe
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The diamond rush is on!
If you are planning to be in the DC Metro area this Friday, be sure to take in this event! The folks at Mervis Diamond Importers have created a modern day diamond mine with 60 REAL DIAMONDS buried in the sand. If you're lucky, you could take one home – you keep what you mine!
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