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Home > News > Graphene Could Help Prevent Another Lance Armstrong

January 15th, 2013

Graphene Could Help Prevent Another Lance Armstrong

Abstract:
After a professional cycling career in which he claimed repeatedly to have never given a positive drug test, Lance Armstrong has reportedly confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs in achieving his Tour de France victories.

While his confession will likely raise a lot of questions, surely one has to be how could the drug tests have failed in detecting the illicit drugs? Great advances have been made in drug testing since Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France in 1999. At that time, there was no test for EPO—the drug of choice of endurance athletes looking for an edge—but a test was developed in 2000. Nonetheless, Armstrong and many others who have recently confessed got away with it between 2000 and now despite the new tests.

Now drug testing may have a new ally in combating cheating in professional cycling and all professional sports. Researchers at the University of Manchester in the UK in cooperation with colleagues at Aix-Marseille University in France are reporting on an optical system—enabled by esoteric stuff such as metamaterials, plasmonics, and singular optics along with the wonder material graphene—to detect a single molecule of a drug in a few minutes.

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