Dendritic core–shell systems as soft drug delivery nanocarriers

Unimolecular micelles are covalently bound molecular architectures and therefore highly stable which makes them particularly attractive for drug delivery. Accordingly, many reports in the literature emphasize the importance of these molecular architectures for nanomedicine. This conceptual review will present some of the recent advances in the application of these dendritic core–shell systems for drug delivery. Unimolecular micelles based on hyperbranched and dendritic cores will be discussed and sorted by the nature of their core and structure.