An anticorrosive and wear-resistant superficial top layer was distinctly produced in AISI 321 austenitic stainless steel by rf plasma carbonitriding. Details about the elemental distribution profiles and the microstructure of the carbonitrided samples, as a function of treatment temperature, were characterized by glow discharge optical spectroscopy (GDOS), grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) and optical microscopy (OM). The tribological behavior was ...
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