MY DEAR PROF. TAIT,—I gather from your letter of September 28 (NATURE, October 8, p. 546) that you admit the correctness of Van der Waals's deduction from the virial equation (1) when the ...

Van der Waals materials, also known as two-dimensional (2D) materials, are layered materials composed of planes that are attached to each other via a weak van der Waals interaction.

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that interlayer coupling in a van der Waals (vdW) material can be largely modulated by a protonic gate, 'injecting' protons into the ...

Definition: Van der Waals materials encompass a broad category of layered substances, including individual van der Waals materials and their engineered stacks known as van der Waals heterostructures, ...

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.

Van der Waals forces, once deemed too weak for structural integrity, have been shown to create stable, highly porous frameworks with exceptional thermal resilience and reversible assembly, paving the ...

Quantum exciton found in magnetic van der Waals material NiPS3 Exciton of many-body origin in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3 points a new direction in quantum information Date: July 20, 2020 ...