Patent ID: 6860956

Claim:
A method of creating a pattern on a substrate: a) applying a first surface energy modifier to an applicator to form a coating of said first surface energy modifier on the applicator; b) contacting the coating with a transfer member, the transfer member having a topography comprising a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of recesses, the coating only contacting and remaining on at least some of the protrusions but not any of the recesses, thus forming a first modified transfer member having surface modified protrusions; c) exposing the first modified transfer member to a second surface energy modifier, thereby forming a second modified transfer member having modified recesses and differential surface energy on the surface modified protrusions and surface modified recesses, wherein the second surface energy modifier creates a surface energy on a silicon wafer that has lower surface energy of the same silicon wafer treated with said first surface energy modifier; d) applying a composition comprising a polymeric material to the second modified transfer member, the composition substantially conforming to the topography of the surface modified protrusions and the surface modified recesses to form composition-coated, surface-modified protrusions and composition-coated surface modified recesses; and e) with or without annealing over T g after step (d), contacting the composition-coated, surface modified protrusions with a substrate having a surface for certain period of time and under appropriate pressure and temperature to transfer the polymeric material from the transfer member to the substrate surface.