“…In this context, poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) and poly(trimethylene carbonate) have been developed to produce gels and matrices for tissue engineering (Shishatskaya et al, 2004 ;Asran et al, 2010 ;Song et al, 2011 ;Schüller-Ravoo et al, 2013 ;Rozila et al, 2016 ;Ding et al, 2016 ;Pascu et al, 2016 ;Zant et al, 2016) and NPs for drug delivery (Xiong et al, 2010 ;Jiang et al, 2013 ;Fukushima 2016 ;Pramual et al, 2016). Our laboratories have recently synthesized and characterized novel poly(hydroxyalkanoate)-based 7 amphiphilic diblock copolymers, namely poly(-malic acid)-b-poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PMLA-b-PHB) (Barouti et al, 2015) and poly(-malic acid)-b-poly(trimethylene carbonate) (PMLA-b-PTMC) (Barouti et al, 2016a), hydrophobic PMLA Be -b-PHB-b-PMLA Be and amphiphilic PMLA-b-PHB-b-PMLA triblock copolymers (Barouti et al, 2016b) as well as linear and star-shaped thermogelling poly([R]-3-hydroxybutyrate) copolymers (Barouti et al, 2016c). One of the objectives was to elaborate biocompatible and biodegradable copolymerbased NPs, and more importantly to highlight the impact of the chemical structure of the hydrophobic block and the influence of the hydrophilic weight fraction on the physico-chemical properties of the self-assembled systems.…”