Named after the Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, these intermolecular forces include attractions ... assembly and properties of nanomaterials. Real-World Examples of Van der Waals ...

The process of folding proteins into their tertiary structures is spontaneous and involves bonds and intermolecular forces to make ... different requirements. For example, if a protein works ...

Experimental evidence of long-range attractive forces between cellular proteins has been obtained by researchers in France more than 50 years after the idea was first proposed. The forces are mediated ...