“…Surface treatments that can improve the corrosion resistance of magnesium and its alloys have been researched extensively in recently years (Gray and Luan, 2002). Surface treatment methods, such as chemical conversion treatment, is an effective and simple approach, and utilize chromate (Sharma, 1989), permanganate (Umehara et al, 2003), phosphate (Zhou et al, 2008;Li et al, 2006), and phosphate/ permanganate (Zhao et al, 2007; treatments. Chromate conversion treatment is the conventional chemical conversion method, which has been used widely in industry for many years.…”