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

[William Boyer]

This sounds like a useful addition to my toolbox, but I don't have SEM colleagues, so when you can some from them, could you note the name of the item and the supplier and post it here?  Would appreciate it!

Thanks,
William Boyer
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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

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