Whichever camp you’re in, though, it pays to know what’s going on when your plain copper-clad board, adorned with your precious artwork, slips into the etching tank and becomes a printed ...

Much like etching a PCB, Blake started with a copper sheet, writing and drawing his works backwards with stopping varnish, an acid-resistant varnish that sticks around after a nitric acid bath.

These fluorination and ligand-exchange reactions lead to atomic layer controlled etching. This ALE approach is extendible to other materials besides metal oxides. Our current work has demonstrated the ...

This self-portrait was done in the dry point etching technique, where the artist inscribes the image into a soft copper plate using a sharp pointed tool. Having the printing plate itself demonstrates ...