Non-additivity of molecule-surface van der Waals potentials from force measurements

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wagner, Christian ^a,b   Fournier, Norman ^a,b   Ruiz, Victor G ^c   Li, Chen ^d   Müllen, Klaus ^d   Rohlfing, Michael ^e   Tkatchenko, Alexandre ^c   Temirov, Ruslan ^a,b   Tautz, F Stefan ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Section JARA FIT   (Germany)

^c FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ELECTRON; FORCE; METAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; FORCE; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULE; SURFACE PROPERTY; VALIDITY; VAN DER WAALS FORCE;

EID: 84923313378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6568     Document Type: Article

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