Polymer vesicles or “polymersomes” are considered as model biomembranes for applications in life science and biomedicine. Block copolymer vesicles, however, can have a better performance than the phospholipid membranes of biological cells. Peptide- and sugar- based biohybrid polymers and vesicles are especially interesting, as they may combine advantageous features of synthetic polymers (e.g. solubility) and biological polymers (e.g. functionality). Glycopolymers are considered to have a high potential for applications in cell sensing, therapeutics, and synthetic biology.
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