“…Improving the mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), especially their plastic deformation capability, has been a major goal of many research groups in the last two decades. Conventional methods to enhance the plasticity, which makes fracture of these BMG specimens more predictable, are given by, eg, shot peening, mechanical imprinting, cold rolling, or introducing crystalline microparticles . While most of these treatments also affect the surface morphology of the material, which is possibly a drawback for specific technical applications, there is a very recent approach to influence the mechanical properties of bulk amorphous alloys by thermal cycling between room temperature and cryogenic temperatures prior to mechanical testing.…”