The electrochemical parameters extracted from the fitting of the EIS results of the neat epoxy sample after immersion in a corrosive 3.5% NaCl solution at various immersion times.
Sample | Time [day] | R s [Ω cm2] | Q coat [10−9 F cm2 sn−1] | n 1 | R coat [104 Ω cm2] | Q dl [10−7 F cm2 sn−1] | n 2 | R ct [105 Ω cm2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Epoxy | 3 | 3.2 | 2.91 | 1.00 | 61.24 | — | — | — |
6 | 4.9 | 2.59 | 0.95 | 49.31 | 5.49 | 0.97 | 34.12 | |
10 | 2.3 | 1.98 | 0.92 | 45.54 | 9.26 | 0.94 | 29.81 | |
14 | 1.8 | 2.65 | 0.88 | 29.18 | 10.9 | 0.93 | 9.21 | |
18 | 1.3 | 5.29 | 0.87 | 5.31 | 14.71 | 0.87 | 7.51 | |
21 | 1.3 | 27.18 | 0.76 | 2.70 | 69.16 | 0.79 | 4.22 |