“…Activation energies for diffusion that were estimated by permeation and desorption experiments at different temperatures have been well documented for defect-free iron [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][13][14][15] and steels containing traps like substitutional atoms, [7,8,16,17] dislocations, [18] and a few cases of second-phase particles like cementite. [19,20,21] The activation energy for hydrogen to diffuse in a normal iron lattice was reported to be very small, ranging from 5.69 to 7.12 kJ/mol, depending on the measurement method and sample-surface treatment. [22] However, in many cases, the activation energy is not calculated by changing the testing temperature but by simulating the permeation or isothermal-desorption data based on a trapping theory or a diffusion equation.…”