Scotch Tape Can Create X-Rays, and More You Didn’t Know About The Sticky Stuff People have used it to repair everything from curtains to ceilings. Kat Eschner. January 31, 2017.

And airplanes, too, said Jean Sweeney, 3M business unit director for the Scotch tape brands. Four divisions of 3M use the Scotch brand product name, three of them industrial, she said.

Almanac: Cellophane tape 02:18 (CBS News) And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 8th, 1930, 83 years ago today . . . the day the 3M Company shipped out its first roll of ...

The Scotch tape - made from a cellulose-acetate sheet and an adhesive - is uniquely suited for the purpose. "It can be micromachined into different shapes and works as an inexpensive smart material ...

Scientists have used Scotch tape in the past to create thin materials such as graphene, a sheet of graphite made of a single layer of carbon atoms (SN: 3/10/14). Scotch tape is so useful ...