“…On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that from the corrosion point of view, it has been shown [18] that during experiments using electrochemical polarization techniques, carried out on the VPS coatings heat treated at 900°C, the corrosion current density values, i corr , are nearly 4 times smaller as compared to the i corr values determined for the coating in the as-received condition, as a consequence of the metallurgical bond established at the coating-substrate interface. Nevertheless, as it was indicated in a previous research [18], the fact that a high difference of the potential electrode values exists between the carbides particles and the Ni matrix, the coated system will never reach passivity in a 3.5% sodium chloride aqueous solutions, since the corrosion potential, E corr , had high negative values of − 419.4 mV, despite the substantial reduction of the passage of corrosive solution towards the substrate/coating interface.…”