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Scaling laws for van der Waals interactions in nanostructured materials
Gobre, Vivekanand V.; Tkatchenko, Alexandre
2013In Nature Communications, 4
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Abstract :
[en] Van der Waals interactions have a fundamental role in biology, physics and chemistry, in particular in the self-assembly and the ensuing function of nanostructured materials. Here we utilize an efficient microscopic method to demonstrate that van der Waals interactions in nanomaterials act at distances greater than typically assumed, and can be characterized by different scaling laws depending on the dimensionality and size of the system. Specifically, we study the behaviour of van der Waals interactions in single-layer and multilayer graphene, fullerenes of varying size, single-wall carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons. As a function of nanostructure size, the van der Waals coefficients follow unusual trends for all of the considered systems, and deviate significantly from the conventionally employed pairwise-additive picture. We propose that the peculiar van der Waals interactions in nanostructured materials could be exploited to control their self-assembly.
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Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Gobre, Vivekanand V.;  Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Tkatchenko, Alexandre ;  Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
External co-authors :
yes
Title :
Scaling laws for van der Waals interactions in nanostructured materials
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Nature Communications
ISSN :
2041-1723
Publisher :
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, MACMILLAN BUILDING, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON N1 9XW, ENGLAND, Unknown/unspecified
Volume :
4
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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