Table 2 Fitting results for the EIS data acquired from mild-steel (MS), epoxy coated over MS, graphene-epoxy coated over MS and HEAs-np Gr composite-epoxy coated over MS substrate in 3.5% NaCl solution.

From: First Report on High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticle Decorated Graphene

Sample

Rs (Ω cm2)

Qcoat (μF cm−2)

n (0 < n < 1)

Rcoat (Ω cm2)

Qdl (F cm−2)

n (0 < n < 1)

Rct (Ω cm2)

χ2 square value

Mid steel

1.4

3014

0.93

92.16

225.9

0.8

811.8

3.07 × 10−3

Epoxy coating

7.5

539.7

0.8

94

107

0.8

1245

1.36 × 10−3

Gr + epoxy coating

28.6

0.738

0.86

2444

16.2

0.76

3399

2.21 × 10−3

Gr:M (80:20) + epoxy coating

35.2

0.017

0.9

3914

0.74

0.8

15736

1.1 × 10−3