초록 |
Design of new materials with well-defined structures and desirable funtions is a challenge in materials science, particularly when these materials have nanometer-scale dimentsions. In nature, however, complex functional nanosturctures are created through the self-assembly of physically and chemically engineered simple basic building blocks. In appropriate conditions, nanofibers can achieve momentarily favored far form equilibrium states that stabilize the nano/micro-scale self-assembled structures that combine into macroscopically organized hierarchical structure. Recently, by mimicking self-assembly process in nature, various functional nanomaterials have been developed using self-assembly of genetically and chemically engineered viral particles. |