Nano-transfer printing

Sun, Y. Rogers, J. A. 2004. Fabricating semiconductor nano/microwires and transfer printing ordered arrays of them onto plastic substrates. Nano Lett. 4 1953-1959. 

Meitl, M. A. et al. 2004. Solution casting and transfer printing single-walled carbon nanotube films. Nano Lett. 4 1643-1647. 

M.M. Ombaba, V.J. Logeeswaran, M. Saif Islam, Electrically conducting film of silver sub-micron particles as mechanical and electrical interfaces for transfer printed micro-and nano-pillar devices. Applied Physics A Materials Science and Processing 111 (1) (2013) 251-259. 

Ishikawa, F.N., Chang, H.-K., Ryu, K., Chen, P.-C., Badmaev, A., Gomez De Arco, L., Shen, G., Zhou, C., 2008. Transparent electronics based on transfer printed aligned carbon nanotubes on rigid and flexible substrates. ACS Nano 3, 73—79. 

Another simple and straightforward technique makes use of immiscible solvent to form nano structures upon solvent evaporation at the interface. Using a floating technique on a liquid interface the particle arrays are transferred to almost any arbitrary substrate. These nano-arrays have been utilized as masks for vacuum deposition of metal cluster arrays, plasma etching, or as print masters. 

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