Can Plasma Help at the World Cup? Field, Players, Equipment, Locker Room
Chat with Greg Fridman by Gregory Fridman
Episode notes
Next in the "Can Plasma?" series — a World Cup special: can plasma help soccer? Yes, in more places than you'd think — from the grass under the players' feet, to the ball, to the locker room, to the cuts on the players' knees. Most of these aren't practical today. All of them are possible.
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00:00 World Cup special: can plasma help soccer?
00:27 Quick intro — Greg Friedman, plasma bioengineer
00:51 The LinkedIn post on World Cup ball chemistry that inspired this video
01:18 1. The field surface — real grass
01:32 Plasma treatment of grass seed and plasma-activated water
01:59 Activating the soil before the turf goes down
02:06 2. The field surface — artificial turf
02:17 Cleaning between matches + hydrophobic coatings so dirt doesn't stick
02:40 Quickly adding nitrogen to dead ...