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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Polymer Science Volume 2012, Article ID 609767, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/609767 Review Article Self-Assembly of Cholesterol-Containing Water-Soluble Polymers Shin-ichi Yusa Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo 671-2280, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Shin-ichi Yusa, yusa@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp Received 15 August 2011; Accepted 29 September 2011 Academic Editor: Eri Yoshida Copyright © 2012 Shin-ichi Yusa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Self-assembly of amphiphilic polymers containing cholesteryl groups has proved to be attractive in the field of nanotechnology research. Some cholesterol derivatives are known to form ordered structures which indicate thermotropic and lyotropic liquid- crystalline, monolayers, multilayers, micelles, and liposomes. This paper involves the synthesis and characterization of various kinds of amphiphilic polymers bearing cholesteryl moieties. 1. Introduction a number of excellent reviews [6–8]. It is well established that block copolymers dissolved in a selective solvent—a Self-assembling water-soluble polymers are of current scien- solvent good for one block and poor for the other—undergo tific and technological interest because of their relekvance self-organization, leading to the formation of various mor- to biological macromolecular systems and also to vari- phologies, for example, sphe