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 ...

In a recent article, researchers revealed that weak van der Waals interactions between hydrophobic alkyl chains and hydrophilic ZnO surfaces can reduce catalyst deactivation, improving aldehyde ...

Certain 2D van der Waals bilayers, such as WTe₂ and h-BN, exhibit sliding ferroelectricity, yet its stability above room temperature remained unexplained. AIMR researchers developed a ...