The forces are mediated by electromagnetic radiation, and they could explain how molecules find their targets inside the crowded interiors of living cells. At any given time, around 130,000 pairwise ...

Intermolecular interactions, including hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces and π–π stacking ... the importance of crystal structure analysis in materials science and drug discovery.

The process of folding proteins into their tertiary structures is spontaneous and involves bonds and intermolecular forces to make the structure stable, which are described below. Disulfide bonds ...