In this National Endowment for the Arts funded project we wanted to find a way to provide artists with an innovative method for creative expression using electrolytic etching techniques that have long been used in the electronics and biotech industries. Using scientific methods the electrolytic etching process was improved and then compared side by side with copper etched in ferric chloride after analysis with an AFM. The optimized electrolytic etching method proved to be superior to classical acid etching in intaglio printmaking.

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用于美术版画的优化无毒电解蚀刻工艺

在这个由国家艺术基金会资助的项目中，我们希望找到一种方法，为艺术家提供一种创新方法，使用长期以来在电子和生物技术行业中使用的电解蚀刻技术进行创造性表达。使用科学方法改进电解蚀刻工艺，然后在用 AFM 分析后与在氯化铁中蚀刻的铜并排比较。在凹版印刷中，优化的电解蚀刻方法被证明优于经典的酸蚀刻。