Instantons,fermion mass generation and supercomplementarity

We consider the possibility that hypercolor instantons can provide fermion masses in preon models of quark and leptons. After discussing the basic ideas of this mechanism in a non-supersymmetric preon model we consider a supersymmetric, QCD-like preon model. We work within the so-called complementarity picture and show the equivalence between the mass term of the elementary fermions, generated by a vacuum expectation value of a elementary scalar, and the mass term of the composite fermions, generated by the hypercolor instantons.