“…Poly(hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) and poly(carbonates) (PCs) have attracted considerable attention for the design of drug delivery systems due to their high biocompatibility and low toxicity (Furrer et al, 2008;Wu et al, 2009;Hazer, 2010;Hu et al, 2012;Shrivastav et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2014;Loyer and Cammas-Marion, 2014;Li and Loh, 2015;Nigmatullin et al, 2015). 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 ;SchĂźller-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(ď˘-malic acid)-b-poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PMLA-b-PHB) (Barouti et al, 2015) and poly(ď˘-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).…”