Detection of drug abuse in sports (doping) is a top priority for sport organizations due to a number of factors including enhancement of athletic performance and potential health risks to the athletes. Today, recombinant protein abuse is an evolving form of doping that poses a far more challenging target for analytical chemists. Herein we describe a SERS-based method for the ultrasensitive detection and classification of closely related peptidic performance enhancers.
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Álvarez‐Puebla et al. (2007) studied this question.