Van der Waals Forces: A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists

“Writing from decades of experience, Parsegian … has succeeded in putting together a thoroughly informative, useful, delightful handbook that is rapidly gaining recognition as the ultimate guide and reference text in the field.”
Daniel ben-Avraham, Journal of Statistical Physics

“It what will be for a long time the definitive work on van der Waals forces, Parsegian has written a book that should give pause to those who would have scientific writing be as dry — and boring — as dust.”
Physics in Canada

“An excellent handbook for anyone who needs to calculate van der Waals interactions…Van der Waals Forces is an outstanding volume and the authoritative work on the topic. May the (van der Waals) Force be with you – or at least on your book shelf.”
Keller Autumn, The Quarterly Review of Biology

“In this book, one finds all needed information when the attractive interaction becomes the core question in an experiment involving colloids, including those attracting interest for biophysicists such as bilayers, vesicles, etc. This book―unique in this domain―regroups information very dispersed in primary literature.”
Th. Zemb, Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule

“The author of this is to be applauded for making the mathematics of this topic clear and as straightforward as possible while making it clear that the mathematics is essential to understanding it. It is clear from the care that has gone into developing the treatment of the mathematics that is presented that the author enjoys this topic and wants others to enjoy it too. I think that he succeeds in this aim. This book will be a useful introduction the field of van der Waals forces for both theory and experimental graduate students. It will also prove to be a useful reference book for looking up formula an will be kept in easy reach of this reviewers desk.”
Contemporary Physics