Yellow, black, red, transparent... What's with all these colors of duct tape?


Release Time:

2022-01-10

Tape is particularly common in our lives, almost occupying the details of daily life, whether it is in the offline hardware store or online store, we can buy all kinds of tape. However, when using the tape, Xiaobian found a problem, why some tape after use, will leave a lot of sticky things, and some tape can be cleaned off; And why does some tape stick to some

Tape is particularly common in our lives, almost occupying the details of daily life, whether it is in the offline hardware store or online store, we can buy all kinds of tape.

However, when using the tape, Xiaobian found a problem, why some tape after use, will leave a lot of sticky things, and some tape can be cleaned off; And why does some tape stick to some objects, but immediately "fail" to others?

Before answering these questions, let's take a look at the origin history and specific principles of tape.

1. Duct Tape's past and present lives

Tape, also called tape strip or tape paper, is a combination of a substrate and a binder.

What is the base material? We can understand it as a carrier of tape, and the adhesive is the source of adhesive tape.

The adhesive used in the early adhesive tape was mainly natural rubber, and a variety of polymers are often used in modern times, usually acrylic glue, whose main component is sec-butyl acetate.