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<journal-id>2448-5691</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Mundo nano. Revista interdisciplinaria en nanociencias y nanotecnología]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Mundo nano]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2448-5691</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2448-56912011000100023</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/ceiich.24485691e.2011.1.50987</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La fuerza del vacío. El efecto Casimir]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Esquivel Sirvent]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[R.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Física ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2011</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2011</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>4</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>23</fpage>
<lpage>32</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2448-56912011000100023&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2448-56912011000100023&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2448-56912011000100023&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: En este artículo presentamos algunos aspectos básicos sobre la fuerza de Casimir que resulta de las fluctuaciones del vacío cuántico. Se discute sobre los experimentos recientes para medir esta fuerza, su conexión con las fuerzas de Van der Waals y, finalmente, acerca de las maneras de modular la fuerza de Casimir y cómo inducir torcas de Casimir.]]></p></abstract>
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