(Phys.org) —Researchers at China's National Center for Nanoscience and Technology and Renmin University have used Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to create an image of the weak hydrogen bonds present in ...

Polymer matrix composites are highly susceptible to damage when used in various environmental extremes. This susceptibility results from a number of physical factors common to polymers in general and ...

For the first time ever, an international team of physicists from Switzerland, Finland, Japan, Germany, and Sweden successfully measured the very weak and tiny forces between atoms — a force known as ...