Novel possibilities in the study of isolated carbon nanotubes.
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.
Avdoshenko
Stanislav M
SM
Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 119992 Moscow, Russia. s.avdoshenko@gmail.com
Ioffe
Il'ya N
IN
Kozlov
Andrey A
AA
Markov
Vitaliy Yu
VY
Nikolaev
Evgeniy N
EN
Sidorov
Lev N
LN