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In addition, ellipsoidal polymersomes modified with cell adhesion peptides bind with target cells more actively than spherical ones. We examined this hypothesis by substituting polyaspartamide with octadecyl chains and varying numbers of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) chains. Increasing the degree of substitution of PEG from 0.5 to 1.0 wt% drove the polymer to self-assemble into an ellipsoidal polymersome with an aspect ratio of 2.1. Further modification of these ellipsoidal polymersomes with peptides containing an Arg-Gly-Asp sequence (RGD peptides) led to a significant increase in the rate of association and decrease in the rate of dissociation with a substrate coated with alphav-beta3 integrins. In addition, in a circulation-mimicking flow, the ellipsoidal polymersomes linked with RGD peptides adhered to target tissues more favorably than their spherical equivalents did. 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Increasing the degree of substitution of PEG from 0.5 to 1.0 wt% drove the polymer to self-assemble into an ellipsoidal polymersome with an aspect ratio of 2.1. Further modification of these ellipsoidal polymersomes with peptides containing an Arg-Gly-Asp sequence (RGD peptides) led to a significant increase in the rate of association and decrease in the rate of dissociation with a substrate coated with alphav-beta3 integrins. In addition, in a circulation-mimicking flow, the ellipsoidal polymersomes linked with RGD peptides adhered to target tissues more favorably than their spherical equivalents did. 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