The sticky stuff helped peel sheets of diamond less than a micrometer thick off silicon wafers, creating membranes useful for electronic devices.

The Scotch tape method, also known as micromechanical cleavage or mechanical exfoliation, is a simple yet powerful technique used to isolate thin layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials from their ...

As usual Ben Krasnow has an awesome video on the topic: In my lab however I mostly use Scotch tape to remove surface layers. In certain experiments it’s valuable to have an atomically flat surface.

Now, researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have determined that double-sided Scotch tape can improve ... We’ve seen tape used in triboelectric generators before, by the way.

Electronics made using diamond-based chips would have many advantages. So far, however, they have been hard to produce — this new technique involving sticky tape could change that.