“…The nitriding treatments reviewed here have proved very successful in hardening metal surfaces while retaining their core structure. This strategy allows for improving surface resistance and structural integrity as long as the pieces are not set at a temperature above the treatment temperature [ 19 , 53 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 ]. Hence, while nitriding has been extensively operated on steels and titanium alloys, as illustrated here, superalloy treatments, although efficient, are less interesting as most aeronautic applications use high temperatures [ 35 , 36 , 59 ].…”