Figure 8.

(a) Temperature dependence of the parameter λ for three LC compounds, obtained from the fits of experimental data with scaling relations of multicritical scaling theory (MCST). The relative temperature $\mathsf{\Delta }T=T-T_c$ is measured from the Sm-A–Hex-B phase transition temperature $T_C$; (b) Temperature averaged values of ${{\langle \sigma }_m\rangle }_T$ and their fit with the MCST for three compounds. In the inset, an enlarged region for m values from one to seven is shown. (adopted from Zaluzhnyy et al. [17]–Published by The Royal Society of Chemistry) Used under CC-BY 3.0.