Van der Waals forces are among the weakest, yet most decisive interactions governing condensation and aggregation processes and the phase behaviour of atomic and molecular matter. Understanding the resulting structural motifs and patterns has become increasingly important in studies of the nanoscale regime. Here we measure the paradigmatic van der Waals interactions represented by the noble gas...

We study the influence of von Karman nonlinearity, van der Waals force, and a athermal stresses on pull-in instability and small vibrations of electrostatically actuated mi-croplates. We use the Galerkin method to develop a tractable reduced-order model for elec-trostatically actuated clamped rectangular microplates in the presence of van der Waals forcesand thermal stresses. More specifically,...

This paper explores the mechanism of bending with kinking of a long single-walled carbon nanotube under pure bending with moderate bending angles. The prebuckling response was modeled using the existing continuum mechanics theory accounting for the ovalization of the cross section. The post-buckling behavior was characterized by the development of an elastic kink mechanism, considering the van ...

Fine powders often tend to agglomerate due to van der Waals forces between the particles. These forces can be reduced significantly by covering the particles with nanoscaled adsorbates, as shown by recent experiments. In the present work a quantitative statistical analysis of the effect of powder flow regulating nanomaterials on the adhesive forces in powders is given. Covering two spherical po...

The force field used was MMF94s, without any solvent treatment. A constant dielectric of 1.0 was employed for the electrostatic treatment, whereas the charges were assigned by the force field (Fig. 1). Moreover, an extended non-bonded cut-off was set, for taking into account the best maximum distances over which hydrogen bonding, Van der Waals and electrostatic contributions to the molecular po...

We present a new approach to calculate the attractive long-range vortex-vortex interaction of the van der Waals type present in anisotropic and layered superconductors. The mapping of the statistical mechanics of two-dimensional charged bosons allows us to define a Casimir problem: Two half spaces of vortex matter separated by a gap of width R are mapped to two dielectric half planes of charged...

We investigate the effect of monopolar charge disorder on the classical fluctuation-induced interactions between randomly charged net-neutral dielectric slabs and discuss various generalizations of recent results [A. Naji et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 060601 (2010)] to highly inhomogeneous dielectric systems with and without statistical disorder correlations. We shall focus on the specific case...

The van der Waals dispersion force between graphene nanoribbons is investigated. For this purpose, a nonretarded Lifshitz-like formula for parallel 1D systems is presented within the random phase approximation. Using the response properties of the ribbons from a tight binding model, it is found that the qualitative behavior of the force is similar to the one between two insulating 1D systems. O...

Three consecutive alkyl esters methyl (1), ethyl (2) and isopropyl (3) were synthesized from naproxen by direct Fischer esterification reaction evaluated for their in vivo silico analgesic antiinflammatory activities. Methyl ester showed potent peripheral analgesia with 82.09% 82.59% writhing inhibition, respectively compared to that of (64.68% inhibition) at equivalent dose 25 mg/kg bw. In stu...