“…At low temperatures, the run-away of shear bands is dominated by the sluggish diffusion rate, thus the free volume accumulation is significant compared with that of free volume annihilation rate. Therefore, experimental and molecular dynamics simulations have shown that uncontrolled softening is the dominant mechanism during shear banding, as reported by several authors [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ].…”