This study outlines a versatile and expeditious synthesis of the first derivatives of a new class of benzene that is substituted with both three amide and three alkyne substituents. Sparsely covered monolayer films, made through spin-casting, reveal one-dimensional nanostructures that can be visualized with atomic force microscopy. In bulk, synchrotron X-ray diffraction and polarized light microscopy show that these nanostructured columns assemble further into a two-dimensional liquid crystalline phase. The birefringence of this phase can be switched by application of an electric field. The half-time for the liquid crystalline phase to switch is very fast and proportional to the applied voltage.
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