Calculating Van Der Waals Forces: Gecko Climbing Walls

[Howlin]

Hi

Is there an eqauation to work out the Van Der Waals Force between solids?
I am enquiring this in relation to how a gecko is able to walk up a wall.

I have done some research and it says that a gecko can walk up walls because of Van Der Waals forces, I want to know is there an equation to work it out?

 

[Skyler0114]

Hi

Is there an eqauation to work out the Van Der Waals Force between solids?
I am enquiring this in relation to how a gecko is able to walk up a wall.

I have done some research and it says that a gecko can walk up walls because of Van Der Waals forces, I want to know is there an equation to work it out?

As another person interested in the exact same thing I'd like to request this too.

 

[Mike H]

Have you checked the papers which report these results? (See here and here.) There's also the "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_force" which may be of interest.

 

[Skyler0114]

Have you checked the papers which report these results? (See here and here.) There's also the "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_force" which may be of interest.

I'd seen the wiki pages but hadn't seen the papers.
Thanks