Van der Waals forces, once deemed too weak for structural integrity, have been shown to create stable, highly porous ...

but from unlocking the hidden potential of everyday elements. More information: Maayan Vizner Stern et al, Sliding van der ...

Van der Waals materials are made up of strongly bonded ... akin to swapping an old lightbulb for an LED, marking it a potential game-changer for future technology," Tian says.

Pioneering new research could help unlock exciting new potential to create ultrafast, laser-driven storage devices. The study ...

Van der Waals heterostructures open a huge potential to create numerous metamaterials and novel devices by stacking together any number of atomically thin layers. This opens up hundreds of ...

This discovery challenges the common belief that van der Waals interactions are too weak to form stable open framework materials, demonstrating their potential for creating stable and highly porous ...

POSTECH and University of Montpellier researchers demonstrate wafer-scale AA-stacked hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) growth.

Zhaoyang Lin: We are contacting potential industry partners and exploring commercialisation opportunities. And we hope to see the application of our stretchable van der Waals membrane in real life.

Fluoro and difluoromethylene units have been used as isosteres of oxygen in a range of compounds of potential pharmaceutical interest. The Van der Waals radius of F in the C-F bond is similar to H, ...

This innovation challenges the conventional belief that van der Waals interactions are too weak for open framework materials, demonstrating their potential for stable and highly porous materials.