'''Nanotransfer printing''' (nTP) (compare with [[microcontact printing]]) is a purely additive and high resolution metal printing technique.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Loo|first=Y|coauthorsauthor2=Willett, R.; |author3=Baldwin, K.; |author4= Rogers, J. |title=Interfacial Chemistries for Nanoscale Transfer Printing|journal=J. Am. Chem. Soc.|year=2002|volume=124|pages=7654–7655|url=http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja026355v|doi=10.1021/ja026355v}}</ref> It mainly relies on the principle of [[Surface science|surface chemistry]] - chemically modified surfaces act as interfacial "release" or "glue" layers to aid in transfer printing nanostructured metal ink from relief features (aka "stamp") to a surface of interest. The nTP can be simply envisioned as "a process of signature stamping using rubber-stamp". In a rubber stamping, conventionally crafted signature/logo on a [[rubber stamp]] is transferred or replicated onto a paper surfaces using [[Dye|organic dye]] or ink while in nTP, [[Nanolithography|nanolithographically]] created structures on silicon or PDMS "stamp" are transferred or printed on other surfaces such as glass or [[polymer]]s using metal ink. nTP has found wide applications in various areas including electronics, chemical sensing, spintronics, and plasmonics.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bhusan|first=Bharat|title=Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology|year=2010|publisher=Springer|location=New York|pages=313–332}}</ref> The technique has been successfully implemented for creating various functional structures having sub-100 nm spatial resolution.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bhandari|first=D.|coauthorsauthor2=Kravchenko, I.; |author3=Lavrik, N.; |author4= Sepaniak, M |title=Nanotransfer Printing Using Plasma Eched Silicon Stamps and Mediated by in situ Deposited Fluoropolymer|journal=J. Am. Chem. Soc.|year=2011|volume=133|pages=7722–7724|url=http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja201497a|doi=10.1021/ja201497a}}</ref>
