Bao, PeiteWang, YanboCui, XiangyuanGao, QiangYen, Hung-WeiLiu, HongweiKong Yeoh, WaiLiao, XiaozhouDu, SichaoHoe Tan, H.Jagadish, ChennupatiZou, JinRinger, Simon P.Zheng, Rongkun2015-09-242015-09-240003-6951http://hdl.handle.net/1885/15683We report the atomic-scale observation of parallel development of super elasticity and reversible dislocation-based plasticity from an early stage of bending deformation until fracture in GaAs nanowires. While this phenomenon is in sharp contrast to the textbook knowledge, it is expected to occur widely in nanostructures. This work indicates that the super recoverable deformation in nanomaterials is not simple elastic or reversible plastic deformation in nature, but the coupling of both.This work was supported in part by the Australian Research Council.http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0003-6951..."Publishers version/PDF may be used on author's personal website, institutional website or institutional repository" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 24/09/15). Copyright 2014 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in (Bao, Peite, et al. "Atomic-scale observation of parallel development of super elasticity and reversible plasticity in GaAs nanowires." Applied Physics Letters 104.2 (2014): 021904.) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.48618462014-01-1410.1063/1.48618462015-12-11