Figure 1

(a) Illustration of hot-drawing process for fabrication of multiple metallic glass nano-wires. During step I, the metallic glass fills the micro-porous mesh and nano-template. In step II, the metallic glass nano-wires are drawn out of nano-template by introducing a temperature mismatch between the top and the bottom heating plates. (b–e) Show example hot-pulling morphologies. (b,c) Show initially long (1.50 μm lengths) before and after hot-pulling respectively. (d,e) Show initially short (0.45 μm lengths) before and after hot-pulling respectively. Generally, the initially long nanowires deform to a greater extent than initially short wires as evidence by the difference between (c,e).