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Nature Materials 3, 209 - 210 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1109

Biomimetic polymers: Tough and smart

Richard A. L. Jones1

  1. Richard A. L. Jones is at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK. e-mail: r.a.l.jones@shef.ac.uk

Vesicles for drug delivery should ideally be robust and able to release their cargo at the desired moment. A new type of vesicle, made of block copolypeptides, has exactly these characteristics.

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