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Fabrication and process

Fabrication and process

A sticky wonderland

20 Mar 2018
This article was first published in the March 2018 issue of Physics World

Adhesives are everywhere, from the aerospace industry to the simple but infamous Post-it Note. Alaina G Levine visits adhesive-giant 3M Company’s main US innovation centre to find out more about the physics involved

Photo of 3M scientists
(Courtesy: 3M)
My first thought as I stood in a narrow corridor filled with bright displays, music and booming, che

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Alaina G Levine is a science writer, keynote speaker, science career consultant and author of Networking for Nerds (Wiley, 2015) based in Tucson, Arizona, US, @AlainaGLevine

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