We have all had the experience of unsuccessfully trying to remove a rectangular strip from a roll of adhesive tape by scratching the edge with a fingernail. When pulling on the partially detached ...

Scientists customize tapes for specific uses by balancing adhesion, cohesion, and tack. For example, high-tack tape sticks quickly to a surface, but it may be difficult to move later. In this activity ...

This arm moves vertically at a speed and distances programmed by the user according to the test to be conducted. It contains a loadcell, which allows the highly accurate measurement of force and ...

Nanomechanical testing of PSAs is critical for ... a commercially available re-stickable mini tab, and Adhesive B, an outdoor construction tape) were determined using a Hysitron TI 990 ...

After seven months of outdoor testing, it was the only tape still holding to all four of our sample boards. It’s a heavy-duty tape with a big, thick adhesive, so it’s not as flexible as Duck ...

BERLIN — German and American scientists are working to develop a new information storage technology using ordinary commercial adhesive tape as a medium. Private European Media Laboratory GmbH ...

DermTech’s test uses an adhesive tape to collect cells from the suspected skin’s surface. When the sample is sent to DermTech’s labs, technicians extract RNA and analyze it for 17 ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester in England and the Institute for Microelectronics Technology in Russia have emulated the animal’s adhesive mechanism by creating “gecko tape.” ...

A team from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Carnegie Mellon University has developed an adhesive tape that possesses self-cleaning properties similar to a gecko's feet. Gecko feet ...