Move over cassette tapes, adhesive tape has memory too

Move over cassette tapes, adhesive tape has memory too

Materials can store information about their past—like a crease in a piece of paper that has been unfolded is a "memory" of being folded—that can be retrieved or read out and used for various purposes. In everyday life, combination ...

Peeling Scotch Tape Leaves Behind Invisible Memories: Scientists Can Read Them

Those invisible marks act like entries in a diary, a physical record of what the tape experienced. The post Peeling Scotch Tape Leaves Behind Invisible Memories: Scientists Can Read Them appeared first on StudyFinds.

Penn State University: Move over cassette tapes, adhesive tape has memory, too

Penn State University: Move over cassette tapes, adhesive tape has memory, too. “In everyday life, combination locks must remember the turns of the dial to open, and the memory of specialized materials is used to make airplanes safer, electronics more efficient and bridges stronger and more resilient. Now, researchers at Penn State have demonstrated that ordinary adhesive tape has a specialized type of material memory capable of storing a sequen…

Sticky Tape Stores Memories Like a Combination Lock, Without Electricity

Pull a strip of ordinary Scotch tape partway off a surface and set it back down. Nothing remarkable seems to happen. The tape lies flat, a little crinkled perhaps, the adhesive re-bonding to whatever substrate you peeled it from. But look closely, at the molecular level of the adhesive layer, and something has been written there: a record. A memory of exactly how far you pulled. Peel it again, a shorter distance this time, and a second memory jo…