Some liquids, if cooled rapidly enough to avoid crystallization, can be frozen into a
nonergodic glassy state. The tendency for a material to form a glass when quenched is …

Glass-forming ability characterizes how easily we can avoid crystallization and thus make a
glassy state of material from its liquid state upon cooling. Its quantitative measure is given by …

Some liquids do not crystallize below the melting point, but instead enter into a supercooled
state and on cooling eventually become a glass at the glass-transition temperature. During …

It is well known that bulk metallic glass formers have a tendency to show local icosahedral
chemical ordering. We argue that the frustration between this short-range bond ordering and …

The origin of glass formation is one of the most fundamental issues in glass science. The
glass-forming ability (GFA) of multicomponent systems, such as metallic glasses and phase …

We divide glass and viscous liquid sciences into two major research areas, the first dealing
with how to avoid crystals and so access the viscous liquid state, and the second dealing …

One of the most controversial hypotheses for explaining the heterogeneous dynamics of
glasses postulates the temporary coexistence of two phases characterized by a high and by …

When we cool down a liquid below the melting temperature, it can either crystallize or
become supercooled, and then form a disordered solid called glass. Understanding what …

We assess the validity of “microscopic” approaches of glass-forming liquids based on the
sole knowledge of the static pair density correlations. To do so, we apply them to a …

A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …