“…Unlike crystalline metals, for which the creep behavior has been extensively studied and several well documented deformation mechanisms, e.g., dislocation and grain boundary related processes [1,2], have been developed, the creep behavior in metallic glass (MG) received much less attention [3e5], especially when the deformed volume is in nanoscale [6,7]. In principle, due to the lack of long range structural order, the mechanisms mediated via dislocation or grain boundary are not operative in MG [3,8,9].…”