Abstract Alloy melts can solidify into metallic glasses if cooled fast enough to avoid crystallization. Glass-forming ability (GFA), a measure of the ease vitrification, is vital for fundamental understanding glass formation, and also crucial application glasses. Previous studies GFA mainly focused on undercooled liquid phase, while influence evolution stable rarely addressed. Here we show that...

We study the role of the attractive intermolecular forces in the viscous regime of a simple glass-forming liquid by using computer simulations. To this end, we compare the structure and the dynamics of a standard Lennard-Jones glass-forming liquid model with and without the attractive tail of the interaction potentials. The viscous slowing down of the two systems is found to be quantitatively a...