“…Before proceeding, we would like to further discuss the physical meaning of shear band initiation and the length scale we extracted. According to the prior experimental 10,11,40,[42][43][44] and computational 9,47 results, shear band initiation was usually associated with the transition from a homogeneous deformation to inhomogeneous (shear-banding) deformation in a uniaxial test, either tension or compression, with the transition size ranging from $100 nm to $400 nm. However, there were also experimental reports that shear banding still prevailed at the length scale of $100 nm; 41,48-51 the recent computational simulation 9,47 even showed that shear banding can be observed down to the length scale of 10 nm.…”