[GSAS-II] Double sided tape recommendations for sample measurement

[Brown, Matthew]

Anthony

You are the second person to recommend that, thank you; a lot of the engineers in my buildings need and butter is SEM, do I'll just walk down the hall to the graphite people!

Thank you!

Dr. Matthew L. Brown  (he/him, they/them)
Lab Technician V (Chemistry, Crystallography)
Office: 250-807-8365 | WD Lab (PXRD): x376665

UBC School of Engineering
1540 Innovation Dr.
Kelowna, BC
V1V 1V7
________________________________
From: Bell, Anthony <anthony.bell at shu.ac.uk>
Sent: April 24, 2024 12:47:32 AM
To: Brown, Matthew; gsas-ii at aps.anl.gov
Subject: RE: Double sided tape recommendations for sample measurement

[CAUTION: Non-UBC Email]
Dear all

I have found double sided carbon sticky tabs used for mounting samples for Scanning Electron Microscopes are really useful for XRD. Apart from a very weak amorphous band corresponding to the graphite 002 peak there really isn’t much signal.

Go and visit your friendly electron microscope colleagues, just like I did.

Best wishes

Dr. Tony Bell
Technical Specialist and X-ray lab manager
Materials and Research Engineering Institute
Laboratory and Analytical Operations
Technical Operations, Resources and Services
Student and Academic Services
Office:  2017 Harmer
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus
Howard Street
Sheffield
S1 1WB

Anthony.Bell at shu.ac.uk
0114 225 3401<tel:0114%20225%203401> (office)
07925879183<tel:07925879183> (mobile)

From: GSAS-II <gsas-ii-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Brown, Matthew via GSAS-II
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 11:30 PM
To: gsas-ii at aps.anl.gov
Subject: [GSAS-II] Double sided tape recommendations for sample measurement

All We have a lot of groups working on coatings and films here, and they will often bring me foldy, crinkly materials that need to be forced to lay flat. At first I had some good luck with some 3M double sided tape I inherited, laying it down,
ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
This Message Is From an External Sender

This message came from outside your organization.



ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd
All

We have a lot of groups working on coatings and films here, and they will often bring me foldy, crinkly materials that need to be forced to lay flat. At first I had some good luck with some 3M double sided tape I inherited, laying it down, then pressing the sample into that. However, when I ran out, I discovered the new tapes I bought had such a strong signal you could often see it through the sample, and it would drown out the actual measurement. Does anyone have recommendations for specific double-sided tape that have minimal, and preferably amorphous PXRD diffractograms? It turns out that 3M makes a *lot* of different double-sided tapes.

Thank you all.


Dr. Matthew L. Brown  (he/him, they/them)
Lab Technician V (Chemistry, Crystallography)
Office: 250-807-8365

UBC School of Engineering
1540 Innovation Dr.
Kelowna, BC
V1V 1V7

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/gsas-ii/attachments/20240424/61c1fdc8/attachment.html>