Offering some of the highest specific strength and resilience values known among bulk materials, metallic glasses have the potential to revolutionize the field of materials science and engineering. Through effectively probing the fundamental mechanism responsible for deformation in these materials, nanoindentation has the potential to provide the answers necessary for their practical application.

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DOI: 10.1016/S1369-7021(09)70039-2