title: Novel possibilities in the study of isolated carbon nanotubes.
abstract: We report the first detection of carbon nanotubes in the gas phase in a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometric experiment. These observations open the possibility of studying isolated nanotubes in the gas phase by means of various spectroscopic methods and a possible way to separate them.
authors.affiliation: Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 119992 Moscow, Russia. s.avdoshenko@gmail.com
authors.forename: Stanislav M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Avdoshenko
authors.forename: Il'ya N
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Ioffe
authors.forename: Andrey A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kozlov
authors.forename: Vitaliy Yu
authors.initials: VY
authors.lastname: Markov
authors.forename: Evgeniy N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Nikolaev
authors.forename: Lev N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Sidorov