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.

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 ...

H-NbO₂—a novel van der Waals oxide synthesized by researchers from Japan—exhibits strongly correlated electronic properties ...

The van der Waals force is an attraction between neutral atoms, molecules, or other particles. Although it is weak, it plays an important role in phenomena such as adhesion of gecko toes and tape ...

(Nanowerk News) 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, and molecules. Precise ...

Physicists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have succeeded in measuring the very weak van der Waals forces between individual atoms for the first time. To do this ...

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.

Over at ALCF, Katie Jones writes that researchers are using the Mira supercomputer to validate a new “wave-like” model of the van der Waals force—a weak attraction that has strong ties to function and ...

Small Asteroids Are Held Together by Van Der Waals Forces Small spinning asteroids are piles of rubble and dust that ought to fly apart but don’t. Now astronomers have worked out why not.

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, and molecules. Precise measurements were ...

Van der Waals force re-measured: Physicists verified nonlinear increase with growing molecular size Date: November 26, 2014 Source: Forschungszentrum Juelich Summary: Van der Waals forces act like ...

Physicists have succeeded in measuring the very weak van der Waals forces between individual atoms for the first time. To do this, they fixed individual noble gas atoms within a molecular network and ...