Van der Waals interactions and the limits of isolated atom models at interfaces
Van der Waals forces are individually weak, but on scale can drive many nano- and macroscopic processes. Here, Kawai et al. directly measure the van der Waals interactions between noble gas atom pairs and show how this changes with atom size and surface adsorption.
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11559 |