“…The sublayer closer to the steel interface (labeled with points 6 and 7 in Figure 4 a) is described in the majority of the literature [ 6 , 17 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 29 ] as an α-Fe(Al,Si) solid solution, which is reasonable, since Al and Si are strong ferrite stabilizers that diffuse to the steel substrate during austenitization. However, some studies [ 5 , 23 ] identified this layer as Fe 3 Al, which has also been reported by others [ 4 , 32 ], wherein the authors described the phase transformation of high-temperature α-Fe(Al, Si) to the low-temperature stable Fe 3 Al (D0 3 ) ordered phase. In the present study, the concentration gradient of Al and Si in this sublayer (α-Fe(Al, Si)/Fe 3 Al) was noticed, which is shown in the SEM-EDS map in Figure 5 , and the chemical composition is shown in Table 3 .…”