The work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No 50471019);the PhD Program Foundation of Ministry of Education of China ( No 20060213017);National Defence Key Laboratory Foundation ( No 9140C500404070C5007)
The effect of lanthanum(La) on nitrogen atom diffusion in ε-Fe3N phase produced during nitriding with and without rare earth addition were studied based on the density function theory of first principles and the quan...