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Devices reach single-proton limit

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An ultrasensitive nanomechanical mass sensor based on a single carbon nanotube could have applications in mass spectrometry and surface science.

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Figure 1: Nanomechanical mass sensing.

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  1. and the Department of Physics, Wayne Hiebert is at the National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2M9, Canada,

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