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Van der Waals is still occupied with working out the details of this great investigation.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 - Presentation Speech 1967

Because the hairs are so tiny, each of them is attracted to the wall through van der Waals forces, which attract (and repel) individual molecules.

Ten sci-fi gadgets that may soon be real: Part 1 ewillett 2009

The ability of geckos to climb smooth surfaces has been attributed to the van der Waals force.

Tattoo-like patch breakthrough in patient monitoring 2011

The Curies were there and just glowed the whole time. van der Waals forced himself to mingle.

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The monitor doesn't use an adhesive, relying on a weak force called the van der Waals force that causes molecules and surfaces to stick together without interfering with motion.

Tattoo-like patch breakthrough in patient monitoring 2011

The large surface area of the spatulae exploit the van der Waals force, the weak attractive force between molecules, enabling the gecko's feet to stick.

Boing Boing 2008

The person cited the fact that our fingertips can feel the grittiness of a powder down to about 150 microns, and then it just didn't feel gritty anymore; since Van der Waals 'forces tend to show up more when something is 150 microns or smaller, he conjectured a connection.

A Rule of Thumb Heather McDougal 2008

The general belief among my local pundits was that friction ridges weren't deep enough, enclosing enough or wet enough for either suction or for cohesion; and their structure wasn't complex enough for Van der Waals.

A Rule of Thumb Heather McDougal 2008

A comparison between protein-RNA and protein-DNA complexes showed that whilst base and backbone contacts (both hydrogen bonding and van der Waals) were observed with equal frequency in the protein-RNA complexes, backbone contacts were more dominant in the protein-DNA complexes.

Chunkdz Comes Out Smokin 2008

The interface properties of the protein-RNA complexes reveal the diverse nature of the binding sites. van der Waals contacts played a more prevalent role than hydrogen bond contacts, and preferential binding to guanine and uracil was observed.

Chunkdz Comes Out Smokin 2008