10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01034.s015 Seok-Woo Lee Seok-Woo Lee Mehdi Jafary-Zadeh Mehdi Jafary-Zadeh David Z. Chen David Z. Chen Yong-Wei Zhang Yong-Wei Zhang Julia R. Greer Julia R. Greer Size Effect Suppresses Brittle Failure in Hollow Cu<sub>60</sub>Zr<sub>40</sub> Metallic Glass Nanolattices Deformed at Cryogenic Temperatures American Chemical Society 2015 exhibit layer thicknesses glass nanolattices harness size effects 20 nm macroscale dimensions plasticity Hollow Cu 60Zr Metallic Glass Nanolattices Deformed nanoscale ductile Molecular dynamics simulations Size Effect Suppresses Brittle Failure material deformation mode Cryogenic term transition instability model TemperaturesTo 2015-09-09 00:00:00 Media https://acs.figshare.com/articles/media/Size_Effect_Suppresses_Brittle_Failure_in_Hollow_Cu_sub_60_sub_Zr_sub_40_sub_Metallic_Glass_Nanolattices_Deformed_at_Cryogenic_Temperatures/2133148 To harness “smaller is more ductile” behavior emergent at nanoscale and to proliferate it onto materials with macroscale dimensions, we produced hollow-tube Cu<sub>60</sub>Zr<sub>40</sub> metallic glass nanolattices with the layer thicknesses of 120, 60, and 20 nm. They exhibit unique transitions in deformation mode with tube-wall thickness and temperature. Molecular dynamics simulations and analytical models were used to interpret these unique transitions in terms of size effects on the plasticity of metallic glasses and elastic instability.