By contrast van der Waals forces – weak electrostatic attractions between adjacent atoms or molecules that arise from fluctuations in the positions of their electrons – seem to do the trick for ...

Van der Waals forces act like a sort of quantum glue on all types of matter. Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, experimentally determined for the first time all of the key details ...

This news release is available in German. Although the van der Waals force was discovered around 150 years ago, it is still difficult to quantify when predicting the behaviour of solids, liquids ...

Unlike magnetic attraction, which affects only metals or matter carrying an electric current, van-der-Waals forces make anything stick to anything, provided the two are extremely close to each other.

Researchers report a new class of additive-free inks that exploit the unique ability of 2D nanosheets to form percolating networks, accommodating a given solvent.

Researchers from Kyoto University have achieved a groundbreaking advancement in materials science by developing the world's first three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks (WaaFs). This ...

(Nanowerk News) They ensure that gases below a certain temperature condense into liquids. They give glue its adhesive force and enable geckos to hang upside down on a wall. The 'they' in question: van ...

The Van der Waals force between atoms, molecules and surfaces is a part of everyday life in many different ways. Spiders and geckos rely on it to walk up smooth walls, for example, and the force ...

The van der Waals forces—attractive and repulsive forces between molecules caused by temporary dipoles—heal the polymer by forcing its components to interdigitate, like fingers on clasping hands.

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The opposite charges in the feet and wall create electrostatic attraction. The force of attraction between uncharged molecules is called a van der Waals force.