Table 5 Potentiodynamic polarization fitted data for bare Al, epoxy coatings, GO-epoxy coatings, GO-TTA-epoxy coatings in 3.5% NaCl solution.

From: Designing an eco-friendly graphene oxide-based titanium tetra-acetoximate modified epoxy coating for anti-corrosion properties of aluminium

Sample name

Ecorr (mV/SCE)

icorr (µA cm2)

βa (mV)

βc (mV)

Corrosion rate (mpy)

IE (%)

Bare Al

− 879.223

7.064

97.3

− 219.9

3.109

Epoxy coatings

− 969.582

3.187

295.2

− 209.2

1.402

54.88

GO-epoxy coatings

− 864.991

1.135

281.5

− 241.5

0.499

83.93

GO-TTA-epoxy coatings

− 921.316

0.178

122.1

− 142.2

0.078

97.48