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NEW EPOXY ADHESIVE RELIES ON REVERSIBLE CHEMISTRY Sandia-developed removable adhesive bonds and detaches with temperature changes.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  October, 2001  

Tags: bond, epoxy, Sandia National Laboratories

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A Sandia National Laboratories research team, led by scientist Jim Aubert, has developed a removable epoxy adhesive that makes bonding and detaching parts a matter of temperature change. Sandia is a Department of Energy National Laboratory. "Our approach to a removable adhesive relies on the use of a reversible chemistry that breaks apart the adhesive at elevated temperatures, resulting in low adhesive molecular weight and low bond strength," Aubert says.

No other adhesive with the strong bonding characteristics of an epoxy has the capability of melting - becoming ...

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