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Research on nanoparticles is motivated by (1) their intrinsic properties, (2) the properties of the structures created from them, and (3) the effects they and their structures have on materials or larger structures where they are deposited or embedded. For implementing a process-level description of the formation of these structures, a quantitative treatment of the physical factors involved in their assembly from isolated nanoparticulate elements is useful. In addition to transport, such a description must include interaction potential energies not only between individual, isolated spherical particles but it must also account for multiparticle interactions such as spheres with aggregates of nanoparticles, aggregates with aggregates, etc. Such a hierarchy of interactions involves multiple length scales and must account correctly for all levels of interactions on a basis that is internally consistent from one length scale to the next. This contribution reviews recent progress by the author and his colleagues in the formulation of the multiscale van der Waals interaction energy, including the onset of retardation, and its many-body generalizations for the purpose of accounting for the formation of aggregates of nanoparticles and applications elsewhere.
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Marlow, W.H. (2004). Van der Waals Energies in the Formation and Interaction of Nanoparticle Aggregates. In: Granqvist, C., Kish, L., Marlow, W. (eds) Gas Phase Nanoparticle Synthesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2444-3_1
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