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Rapid, Reliable On-site Drug Detection Using Wearable Sensor

Researchers in South Korea develop a wearable sensor that can detect illegal drugs in sweat.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

Researchers in South Korea have successfully developed a wearable sensor that can detect illegal drugs in sweat by using nanomaterials technology that amplifies the optical signal of narcotics to flexible, body-worn material.    Led by Dr. Ho Sang Jung, the research unit is part of the Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT.   The technology enables fast and highly sensitive drug detection: the sweat patch ...

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