“…Such Al-nanocrystals have been detected after heat treatment [3] and after plastic deformation [1,4,5] of Al-based amorphous alloys. Deformation-induced crystallization at ambient and sub-ambient temperatures has been observed after cold-rolling [4], nanoindentation [5], high pressure torsion [6], extreme bending [7,8], and ball-milling [4,9]. It is yet unclear whether the underlying mechanism for strain-induced crystallization is thermal or athermal.…”