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University System of Maryland

Google Inc.

Soo Hyoung Kim

Bong Jin Kim

Michael R Zachariah

Raymond J Phaneuf

Hyunchan Kim

Jegeon Jung

De-Hao Tsai

Timothy D Corrigan

An artificial turf system includes: a lower member located to come into close contact with the ground; an upper member spaced apart from the lower member; the shock absorbing pad placed between the lower member and the upper member and made of materials having given elasticity to absorb the shock received from the artificial turf assembly; and the artificial turf assembly seated onto the top of the upper member and having a backing cloth having brushes located on one surface thereof, silica sand poured inside the brushes where artificial turf is planted, and the artificial turf fixed to the inside of the brushes and made of an antibacterial material.

Artificial turf system having shock absorbing pad

A filling material that is laid between artificial turf when constructing artificial turf on a floor of sports stadium or the like, specifically, an antibacterial artificial turf filling material comprising 20 to 35% by weight of a styrene-based polymer, 8 to 20% by weight of an olefin-based resin, 15 to 30% by weight of a process oil, 10 to 30% by weight of an inorganic filling material, and 2.1 to 8% by weight of an antibacterial powder, wherein the antibacterial powder is a mixed powder of a copper sulfide powder and a red clay powder, the antibacterial artificial turf filling material has by a specific heat of 1.80 J/g·k or more.

Artificial turf filling material having antibacterial and cooling effect

An artificial turf constructed on a floor of a sports stadium and used as a substitute for natural turf, specifically, an antibacterial artificial turf pile yarn includes 80 to 90% by weight of polyolefin resin, 3 to 10% by weight of a silicon-based compound, and 3 to 10% by weight of an antibacterial powder, wherein the antibacterial powder is copper sulfide powder, and the antibacterial artificial turf pile yarn is coated to have a cooling function, and wherein a PCM (phase change material) powder is mixed with one or more powers of titanium, aluminum, and graphene powders as a cooling material powder and coated on an artificial turf pile yarn with viscosity to have a cooling effect together with an antibacterial effect for inhibiting bacterial growth.

Artificial turf pile yarn having antibacterial and cooling effect

Methods and apparatus for modifying search results based a dismissal action associated with one or more of the search results by a user to whom the search results are presented. Initially provided search results may include at least a first set of search results that are associated with a first entity and a second set of search results that are associated with a second entity. In response to a dismissal action associated with one or more of the search results of the first set, the initial search results may be modified to demote and/or omit one or more search results of the first set. The user may be provided with the modified search results.

Modifying search results based on dismissal action associated with one or more of the search results

Carbon nanotube structures are formed by providing metal composite particles including a catalyst metal and a non-catalyst metal, where the catalyst metal catalyzes the decomposition of a hydrocarbon compound and the formation of carbon nanotube structures on surfaces of the particles. The metal composite particles are combined with the hydrocarbon compound in a heated environment so as to form carbon nanotube structures on the surfaces of the metal composite particles. The metal composite particles can be include iron and aluminum at varying amounts. The carbon nanotubes formed on the metal particles can remain on the metal particles or, alternatively, be removed from the metal particles for use in different applications.

Carbon nanotube structures formed on large free floating substrates

In a method and system for controllable electrostatic-directed deposition of nanoparticles from the gas phase on a substrate patterned to have p-n junction(s), a bias electrical field is reversely applied to the p-n junction, so that uni-polarly charged nanoparticles are laterally confined on the substrate by a balance of electrostatic, van der Waals and image forces and are deposited on a respective p-doped or n-doped regions of the p-n junction when the applied electric field reaches a predetermined strength. The novel controllable deposition of nanoparticles employs commonly used substrate architectures for the patterning of an electric field attracting or repelling nanoparticles to the substrates and offers the opportunity to create a variety of sophisticated electric field patterns which may be used to direct particles with greater precision.

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Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Soo Hyoung Kim