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SUBMITTER: Kawai S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4869171 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160513
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 atom pairs Ar-Xe, Kr-Xe and Xe-Xe with a Xe-functionalized tip of an atomic force microscope at low te ...[more]