Table 1. Physical properties of the macroscopic self-assembled host and guest gels.

Host gel	Mole content of Azo unit in guest gels (mol%)	Wavelength of light (nm)	Stress (kPa)	Strain (%)
α-CD-gel	0.5	430	3.5±0.3	75±3
α-CD-gel	1.0	430	8.7±0.5	87±4
β-CD-gel	0.5	365	1.2±0.3	31±6
β-CD-gel	1.0	365	1.8±0.4	46±3