Abstract
Few efforts have been made so far on the achievement of large stimulus-responsive deformations in highly organized polymer assemblies. The importance of such approach is of no doubt if one looks at the sophisticated activities in biological systems. This review article focuses to our recent studies on the organized photoresponsive polymer monolayers and related organized systems. Our investigation involves (1) the photo-driven deformation of “nano-scale” azobenzene containing monolayer, (2) information transfer to “meso-scale” polymer films, and (3) light-induced “micro-scale” mass transfer in spincast films. In all cases, the the photoisomerization process of azobenzene taking place in the organized assemblies is of essence to bring large and effective dynamic processes.
