Cooling
Many jurisdictions recommend cooling adhesive tapes as a way to un-stick them from surfaces
or to un-stick them from themselves. Recommendations include freezing using liquid nitrogen or
a microcircuit freezing spray (see below). The goal is to cool the tapes below the adhesive‟s
critical „glass transition temperature.‟ One way to accomplish this is with liquid nitrogen.
Another might be to use dry ice. When sufficiently cooled, the adhesive solidifies so that it can
be gently and slowly pulled from the surface or from the sticky-side of an adhering adhesive.
Essentially the frozen adhesive „fractures‟ from the surface to which it is bound