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gizmo686 3 hours ago

Who says this will be a specialized adhesive? If it works as advertised, it could be a super-glue alternative with easy unglueability. That would be an attractive consumer product; and the type of product that could easily end up on someones hands.

danbruc an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Superglue is probably two order of magnitude stronger, so I doubt that this will replace cyanoacrylates. And while ethanol or hand sanitizer will not help much with superglue, acetone or nail polish remover will remove it. Then again, acetone will attack more materials then ethanol, so a glue that can be removed with ethanol might still be beneficial.

SV_BubbleTime 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

Also… Uncure is a popular brand of cyanoacrylate remover. This is already a solved problem it seems.

danbruc 15 minutes ago | parent [-]

Never heard that name, but according to their safety data sheet [1] it is 95+ % dimethylformamide [2], structurally acetone with a dimethylamin group. Acetone-free nail polish remover usually contains primarily ethyl acetate [3] which is also structurally similar.

[1] https://bsi-inc.com/sds_pdf/sds_un_cure.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylformamide

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_acetate

neoecos 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

3M will fight for this patent