∼ 119 Å2 /polymer; MA-terminated linear: ∼ 124 Å2 /polymer) and more stable micelle (ring has smaller fluctuations in R G than MA-terminated; Table ). We also find that the MAterminated linear polymers form micelles which have a significant number of EO monomers internalized into the core of the micelle which results in there being a significant amount of water within the core (Table ). This increased amount of the water in the core reduces the stability of the micelle (Table ). Our ability to identify three distinct conformations of each of the polymers allows us to provide a detailed picture of the internal structure of the micelles. In doing so, we show that for the linear polymer with the hydrophobic monomers on either end (MA-terminated linear) there are two conformations where the MA blocks are near to one another and one conformation in which the polymer is fully extended with the MA blocks separated from another. This is consistent with the general picture suggested for the MA-EO and BA-EO polymers studied by Honda et al. as well as for Pluronics which contain blocks of propylene oxide (PO) and ethylene oxide. In each case, the authors suggest that these polymers with the hydrophobic monomers on the terminal ends form flower-like micelles where a majority of the polymers have both terminal ends within the core of the micelle, and some of the polymers have a hydrophobic terminal end in solution. The results of our simulations for the MA-terminated linear polymers show that ∼ 20% of the polymers take conformations which result in at least one of the MA-blocks being in the corona of the micelle. Interestingly, with the larger aggregation number for the MA-terminated linear polymers than for the micelles formed from the EO-terminated linear polymers, we find that both micelles have roughly the same number of MA monomers (∼ 360) in the core of their micelles.