A variety of polymers were investigated as candidates for the formation of oriented layers by friction transfer. Only polyethylene, the liquid-crystalline Vectra(R) and fluorinated ethylene-propylene copolymer were found to yield oriented transfer layers. These layers, in turn, were found to induce the oriented growth a variety of species deposited onto them from the melt, solution or vapor phase. The present orientation-inducing friction-transfer layers, however, were found to be inferior to those of poly (tetrafluoroethylene) [PTFE], described previously.