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Long range interactions in nanoscale science

Roger H. French, V. Adrian Parsegian, Rudolf Podgornik, Rick F. Rajter, Anand Jagota, Jian Luo, Dilip Asthagiri, Manoj K. Chaudhury, Yet-ming Chiang, Steve Granick, Sergei Kalinin, Mehran Kardar, Roland Kjellander, David C. Langreth, Jennifer Lewis, Steve Lustig, David Wesolowski, John S. Wettlaufer, Wai-Yim Ching, Mike Finnis, Frank Houlihan, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, Carel Jan van Oss, and Thomas Zemb
Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 1887 – Published 11 June 2010

Abstract

Our understanding of the “long range” electrodynamic, electrostatic, and polar interactions that dominate the organization of small objects at separations beyond an interatomic bond length is reviewed. From this basic-forces perspective, a large number of systems are described from which one can learn about these organizing forces and how to modulate them. The many practical systems that harness these nanoscale forces are then surveyed. The survey reveals not only the promise of new devices and materials, but also the possibility of designing them more effectively.

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    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.82.1887

    ©2010 American Physical Society

    Authors & Affiliations

    Roger H. French*

    • DuPont Co. Central Research, E400-5207 Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware 19880, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

    V. Adrian Parsegian

    • Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0924, USA

    Rudolf Podgornik

    • Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0924, USA; Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana SI-1000, Slovenia; and Department of Theoretical Physics, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia

    Rick F. Rajter

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA

    Anand Jagota

    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Program, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA

    Jian Luo

    • School of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA

    Dilip Asthagiri

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA

    Manoj K. Chaudhury

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA

    Yet-ming Chiang

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

    Steve Granick

    • Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

    Sergei Kalinin

    • Materials Science and Technology Division and The Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA

    Mehran Kardar

    • Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

    Roland Kjellander

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

    David C. Langreth

    • Center for Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019, USA

    Jennifer Lewis

    • Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

    Steve Lustig

    • DuPont Co. Central Research, E400-5472 Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware 19880, USA

    David Wesolowski

    • Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6110, USA

    John S. Wettlaufer

    • Department of Geology and Geophysics, Department of Physics, Program in Applied Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8109, USA

    Wai-Yim Ching

    • Department of Physics, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA

    Mike Finnis

    • Department of Materials and Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

    Frank Houlihan

    • AZ Electronic Materials Corporation USA, 70 Meister Avenue, Somerville, New Jersey 08876, USA

    O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

    • Multiscale Dynamic Material Modeling Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA

    Carel Jan van Oss

    • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA

    Thomas Zemb

    • Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, UMR 5257, 30207 Bagnols sur Cèze, France

    • *Corresponding author. rogerhfrench@longrangeinteractions.com
    • Present address: Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

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    Vol. 82, Iss. 2 — April - June 2010

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