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 ...

The quantum mechanical description of the van der Waals force has proven itself in real nanostructures, as a team headed by A. Tkatchenko at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society shows.

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.

Van der Waals forces represent a fundamental type of interaction between molecules. Named after the Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, these intermolecular forces include attractions and ...

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.

For most people, the weak, short-range attractions known as van der Waals forces are something chemistry teachers use to account for deviations from the ideal gas law. These forces, which consist ...

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures 1 —stacks of atomically thin layers of different materials assembled layer by layer—are making possible the design of new devices with tailored properties.

The researchers speculate the force that allows spiders to climb glass and hang on ceilings is something known as the van der Waals force. This form of attraction, based on the positive and ...