To get round this problem the team used Rydberg atoms, which are much larger than normal atoms. Such atoms have one electron in a highly excited state. This means that they have a very large ...

Van der Waals forces are fundamental for chemistry, biology and physics. However, they are among the weakest known chemical interactions, so they are notoriously hard to study.

A class of van der Waals universality is introduced in the collision dynamics of three identical ultracold atoms at all scattering lengths. It is insensitive to short-range chemical details and ...

Gate-Tuned Interlayer Coupling in van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 Nanoflakes. Physical Review Letters , 2020; 125 (4) DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.047202 Cite This Page : ...

Certain 2D van der Waals bilayers, such as WTe₂ and h-BN, exhibit sliding ferroelectricity, ... The most rewarding part was solving a long-standing problem with a simple analytical model.

Zhaoyang Lin: I initially assembled the van der Waals thin films using solution-processable 2D nanosheet ink materials, following the idea proposed by Professor Xiangfeng Duan 10 years ago. ... This ...

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.

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 ...