The Thesis is based on the development of a potentially-scalable methodology to prepare polyurethane/polyurea polymers to nanoencapsulate bioactive molecules. In the first part of the project, the design, optimization and characterization of the polymers were presented, and it showed that the most promising polymer was composed of hydrophilic and hydrophobic pendant tails, disulfide bonds and an amphoteric pair. The polymers synthesized were basically characterized by IR, NMR, MALDI-TOF, which indicated that the polyaddition reactions between the isocyanates and the difunctional nucleophiles proceeded as expected and the polymer grew to the desired molecular weight. The most promising polymer was used to nanoencapsulate four hydrophobic d...