Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

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Comments on the Quality of English Language

Good. Needs proofreding.

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The title is too long and complicated. Try to simplify it while keeping the main material, method and effect.

On the Fig.1 b it's not distribution map, it's hystogram

Authors should indicate in the "methodology" section how the particle sizes were measured.

the average size given cannot be represented with such high precision. I would recommend the author to round this figure

The quality of Figures 4, 6 needs to be improved to improve the readability of the texts in the figures

The pitting potential decreases at 800 °C, but this result is not discussed in the context of possible galvanic coupling between the matrix and the nitride phase.

The study does not analyze the scalability of the technology or potential limitations in industrial implementation.

In the tribological analysis, there is no quantitative evaluation of wear volume from 3D profilometry data

The XRD analysis lacks quantitative phase composition determination (e.g., via Rietveld refinement) to substantiate conclusions regarding phase transformations.

In the EIS analysis, only Nyquist plots are presented; adding Bode representations would strengthen the validation of the equivalent-circuit model.

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Point 16: The caption of the new figure 3 (was fig. 4) is messy and needs rewriting and clean-up. Also the merging of the different curves at different temperatures is not clear. Please pay attention to the details to avoid confusion.

Make sure that point 19 is justified in the text.

 

Comments on the Quality of English Language

Revise grammar and structure especially the new added text.

Author Response

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