Abstract
Nucleic acid based fabrication of nanomaterials has fascinated scientists since the past two decades and exciting challenges have been surmounted. Recently, nucleic acid is successfully combined with other nanometre-scale entities, sometimes by modifying with chemical functional groups, to obtain a wide range of nanomaterials which in certain cases have been characterized with atomic level precision. These nanomaterials are highly focused due to their new physico-chemical properties, which confer several advantages in multi-disciplinary field of research leading to advanced technologies. This review highlights the systematic advances in the synthesis, properties (optical and electronic) and versatile applications of nucleic acid based nano-biomaterials produced from polymer and metal or semiconductor nanoparticles.
