Unusual features of the dispersion force in layered and striated nanostructures

Abstract

A discussion is presented on some physics behind the unusually long ranged dispersion forces recently predicted between one-dimensional and nanolayered structures with a zero electronic energy gap, such as metallic nanotubes and graphitic structures. The various results for these systems, previously obtained via a variety of formalisms, are here re-derived systematically from a single approach.