“…Activation energy, as well as the diffusivity of hydrogen, in pure iron and steel has been measured extensively by electrochemical-permeation, [4][5][6][7][8] gas-permeation, [9][10][11][12] and isothermal-desorption [13,14] experiments at a certain temperature. 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.…”