Multifunctional patchy silica particles via microcontact printing This research addressed the question if it is possible to simplify current microcontact printing systems for the production of anisotropic building blocks or patchy particles by using common chemicals while still maintaining reproducibility high precision and tunability of the Janus balance. Chapter 2 introduced the microcontact printing materials as well as their defined electrostatic interactions. In particular polydimethylsiloxane stamps silica particles and high molecular weight polyethylenimine ink were mainly used in this research. All of these components are commercially available in large quantities and affordable which gives this approach a huge potential for further up scaling developments. The benefits of polymeric over molecular inks was described including its flexible influence on the printing pressure. With this alteration of the µCP concept a new method of solvent assisted particle release mechanism enabled the switch from two dimensional surface modification to three dimensional structure printing on colloidal silica particles without changing printing parameters or starting materials. This effect opened the way to use the internal volume of the achieved patches for incorporation of nano additives introducing additional physical properties into the patches without alteration of the surface chemistry. [...]