The research frequently explores how cooling rates affect the crystallization of liquids, finding a maximum in the number of crystalline clusters at intermediate cooling rates, which helps identify the critical cooling rate required to form a glass rather than a crystal.

This work is critical for understanding the physical mechanisms behind the fluid-solid transition and provides concrete data to improve the creation of stable amorphous materials (glasses) in simulation.

Computational studies of the glass-forming ability of model bulk metallic glasses, often featuring large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to understand crystallization and amorphous structure formation.

) and its threshold values to distinguish between liquid-like and solid-like (FCC, HCP, BCC) particles during simulated quenching.

The studies typically use the Steinhardt bond order parameter ( q̄6q bar sub 6