'Little barrel, good wine?'

摘要

Good things come in small packages or, if you like, "ll vino buono e nella botte piccola" - "Little barrel, good wine". As usual proverbs enrich the meaning of facts and reality, giving them a kind of household point of view. I have always found it amazing how new realities can fit perfectly in old proverbs as if they were there waiting for the realities' arrival. The new entries nanomaterials are indeed following this unwritten criterion and they are at the leading edge of the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology.