News Materials Science Adhesive loses its stick with heat By Jessica Gorman October 9, 2001 at 12:47 pm - More than 2 years ago Share this:Share Share via email (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on X (Opens in new window) X Print (Opens in new window) Print Like the sticky stuff on Post-It notes, a new epoxy adhesive can bind and unbind A strip of rubbery adhesive (left) bonds one cylinder inside another. After heating, the cylinders slide apart (right). Patricia Sawyer materials repeatedly. The adhesive is the first epoxy that’s sticky enough to hold materials together at low temperatures but that reversibly loses its grip when hot, says Jim Aubert, whose team developed the epoxy at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.