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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2009 Jul 23;30(29):5682–5690. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.06.058

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Schematic sketch of self-assembled polymeric structures in aqueous solution (blue parts: hydrophilic, yellow parts: hydrophobic). Homopolymers are present as unimers (left), block copolymers from polymer micelles or micelle like core-shell aggregates (center) while random copolymers can form less stable aggregates through intra- and interchain interactions.