Prediction of glass formability from liquid properties

Glass formation is one of the most interesting phenomena in the condensed matter field. Considerable effort has gone into understanding and predicting the glass formability. However, the previous prediction requires the glass first made before the prediction can be performed. Here, we propose a new prediction formula using liquid properties only. Moreover, we demonstrated that the similarity between liquid and crystalline structure plays an important role in determine the glass formability. Previously, only the kinetics of nucleation and growth processes have been considered.