Carbon nanotubes were suspended in carbon tetrachloride and placed in magne
tic fields of < 80.0 kOe at 310 K. Scanning electron microscopy showed that
a single and free nanotube was oriented with the tube axis parallel to the
fields. From the Boltzmann distribution of tube directions, the anisotropy
of susceptibilities parallel (chi (parallel to)) and perpendicular (chi (p
erpendicular to)) to the tube axis is estimated to be chi (parallel to) - c
hi (perpendicular to) similar to (9 +/- 5) x 10(-6) emu per mole of carbon
atoms (chi (perpendicular to) < chi (parallel to) < 0).