Chemical structure of the amphiphilic dendrons L-G1 (a) and L-G2 (b). Generation of worm-like (c) and spherical nanomicelles (d) upon self-assembly of L-G1 and L-G2 under 150 mM NaCl and pH = 7.4 conditions, as obtained from multiscale molecular simulations. In panels (c) and (d) the common hydrophobic micellar core is evidenced as a gray-shaded surface (and gray sticks), while the hydrophilic shell is shown as forest green and steel blue sticks for L-G1 (c) and L-G2 (d), respectively. In both cases, the solvated salted environment is portrayed as a light gray field. Adapted from [26] with the permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry.