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Drug-impaired driving is a growing threat to the safety of road users in North America and Europe. In Ontario, over 10% of the total road fatalities involved drugs and 36% of fatally injured drivers had drugs in their system while driving. Point-of-care testing (POCT) devices, akin to the Approved Screening Device (ASD) test for alcohol, are time- and cost-efficient tools for providing enforceable means of determining impairment by drugs in drivers at the roadside. The goal of this project is to develop a nanostructured surface that can be used as a drug sensor in a novel POCT device that will sniff out trace quantities of drugs, such as cannabis and cocaine, in oral fluids. Our partnership with Spectra Plasmonics with support the research work of a Masters student who will adapt to this task a nanostructured surface that was recently invented by our research group.
Aristides Docoslis
Nicholas Wilson
Spectra Plasmonics Inc
Engineering - chemical / biological
Nanotechnologies
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