Responses to the comments by J. Chene on the paper entitled: 'Study of the electrochemical permeation of hydrogen in iron', Ref.

摘要

Answer to question 1: The preparation conditions of the samples were selected to reproduce the real use conditions in industrial applications where the material is not annealed (see Section 2.1 of the manuscript).rnMechanical polishing induces a modification of the microstruc-ture leading to strain harden greatly the material surface which presumably hindered hydrogen transport and made effective hydrogen traps. This provokes a decrease of hydrogen diffusivity.