Its namesake discovered the effect while working with colloids, but the usual formulation involves mirrors rather than molecules.
The small scale that this effect works on has caused jamming problems when attempting to develop nanomachines. Deriving the equation for it requires representing the zeta function in terms of a contour integral. In 1994 Lamoreaux and Mohideen measured the force involved to be on the order of piconewtons, even when the metals were only a few atomic diameters apart. Its namesake discovered the effect while working with colloids, but the usual formulation involves mirrors rather than molecules. FTP, identify this effect caused by fluctuations in the quantum field, by which a force appears between two parallel metal plates in a vacuum.
The small scale that this effect works on has caused jamming problems when attempting to develop nanomachines.
Casimir effect