Published May 8, 2018 This content is archived.
An article on Futurity reports on a low-cost chemical sensing chip developed by Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering, that could test people for cocaine as quickly as a breathalyzer identifies alcohol.
"The high-performance chip we designed was able to detect cocaine within minutes in our experiments. It is also inexpensive: It can be produced using raw materials that cost around 10 cents, and the fabrication techniques we used are also low-cost," he said. "In the future, we are hoping to also use this technology to detect other drugs, including marijuana.”
Read the story here.
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