by different methods such as electron beam lithography, [4] photolithography, [5] microcontact printing, [6] or microdroplet annealing. [7] Dip pen nanolithography (DPN) is another very powerful technique to pattern various materials on a range of substrates. [8] DPN is a mask-less and stamp-less method that can be performed at high resolution and under ambient conditions creating patterns of varying sizes and shapes on a single substrate. DPN can deliver small amounts of ink from an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to a substrate. A meniscus is formed when the distance is small between the cantilever and substrate, transporting material from one side to the other (Figure 1). In the first example, Mirkin et al. deposited nanopatterns of n-octadecanethiol onto a gold surface with this approach. [9] Nowadays DPN is a very versatile method: The scope of inks ranges from small molecules, polymers, and proteins to colloids, metal ions, and sols. Two-dimensional assemblies of nanoparticles (NP) on surfaces provide many specific applications [10] ranging from plasmonics, electronics, and spintronics to sensing and biodiagnostics. [11][12][13] Molecular computing with NP holds potential for future technologies, [14,15] as there is a large research interest in patterned devices containing functional NP assemblies. [16] The term "evolution in materio" attracted much attention in recent years. [17,18] While creating large-area patterns is relatively slow with DPN, such small clusters of NP can be easily achieved. [19,20] Mirkin et al. created patterns of citrate-decorated gold nanoparticles (AuNP) and magnetite nanoparticles (MNP) ranging from 650 nm to 2250 nm. In their work, poly(ethylene glycol) was required as a matrix to transport the nanomaterials to different substrates. [21] Further, deposition of AuNP on thiol [19] or amine [22] functionalized surfaces was achieved, assuming that covalent interaction between substrate and NP limits the diffusion of the ink. As shown in later studies, this restriction is not required for successful lithography and thereby direct patterning of AuNP, but examples are still very rare in literature. [23] Interesting Au nanostructures such as stairs, flowers, and nanodiscs were fabricated by Zheng et al. who patterned polymer brushes as etch resist with DPN on a gold surface and conducted subsequent etching. [24,25] Next to etching-based techniques, also template-based DPN was investigated for Nanoparticles offer unique physical and chemical properties. Dip pen nanolithography of nanoparticles enables versatile patterning and nanofabrication with potential application in electronics and sensing, but is not well studied yet. Herein, the patterned deposition of various nanoparticles onto unmodified silicon substrates is presented. It is shown that aqueous solutions of hydrophilic citrate and cyclodextrin functionalized gold nanoparticles as well as poly(acrylic) acid decorated magnetite nanoparticles are feasible for writing nanostructures. Both smaller and larger nanoparticles can be pat...