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Auchincloss hopes they might decide to get out of the highway business altogether: “Instead of using Scotch tape and glue to fix it, let’s just think differently from first principles.”

Their rotation, however, continues to be held together by Scotch tape.

The Olympics used red cinder until 1968 and the Mexico City games, which instead featured a polyurethane "Tartan" track, so-called because 3M, which made it, also made Scotch tape.

Ultrasharp edges are needed to excite phonon-polaritons -- normally, they are launched from the sides of flakes of hBN prepared via what's known as the "Scotch tape" method, in which a bulk crystal is mechanically peeled into thinner layers using household tape.

The nature of the van der Waals forces between layers allows researchers to use Scotch tape to peel the layers into atomic thickness.