“…Hot dipping formed a~20 µm-thick topcoat (spots 1-6), 15 µm-thick transient alloy layer (spots 7-10), and~35 µm-thick underlying alloy layer (spots [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] on the steel substrate (spots 20-24) (Figure 2a [4,8,13,14,18]. Hence, the Al 5 Fe 2 layer (spots [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] was thicker than the Al 13 Fe 4 layer (spots 7-10 inside the alloy layer) [10,11]. On the other hand, in the case of low-alloyed carbon steels, the characteristic finger-or tongue-like morphology that oriented along the c-axis of Al 5 Fe 2 generally developed at the coating/substrate interface [4][5][6]9,10,12,13].…”