Polymers, Liquid Crystals and Interfaces―Expectations for Data-driven Approaches

This article introduces two topics on surface mediated photoinduced effects : photoalignment control of liquid crystals (LCs) and mass transport process in azobenzene-containing polymers. Due to a large cooperative behavior LCs, the photoisomerization azobenzene substrate (command layer) can alignment number LC molecules. Recent work has revealed that command layer be also set at free for polymer films. On other hand, is subject extensive study We have recently demonstrated crucial role process. It expected optimization systems elucidation unresolved issues such soft-interfaces made through data-driven approaches.