- Applications in Bionanotechnology of Self-Assembled Peptide Nanostructures

As early as 1959, Richard Feynman first presented the idea of nanotechnology; envisioning “the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom” to provide a plethora of new opportunities for design [1]. Since then, the advent of science and technology in providing high-precision techniques and high-resolution tools for imaging, production, and characterization has heralded the modern era of nanotechnology. The older approach of “top-down” design, limited by the starting material and its bulk properties, has given way to the “bottom-up” approach that confers complete control of building blocks for the desired end properties.