“…The controlled sustained release of compounds from hydrogels is difficult because the release mechanism depends mainly on two phenomena: the degradation of polymeric networks and the diffusion of compounds through the hydrogel medium. In these regards, we have developed a novel ‘hybrid’ approach: the incorporation of functional block copolymers and/or their self-assembly (polymeric micelles) into base materials (such as gel [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ], sheets [ 8 , 9 , 10 ], and particles [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ]) for the construction of biomaterials for drug delivery systems. Polymeric micelles have a core that can incorporate either hydrophobic [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ] or hydrophilic [ 22 , 23 ] compounds and release drugs by means of either the dilution-induced collapse or the degradation of micelle-forming polymers.…”