“…They need very robust coatings in the marine atmosphere, as they are much more active than the traditional substrate metals and behave differently in electrochemical experiments [158], which can significantly influence the coating formation and protection performance. By utilizing the special surface alkalization effect of Mg, a new coating technique, Electroless E-coating process, has been developed for Mg alloys [86,158,162,[299][300][301][302][303][304][305][306], in which surface wetness is critical to the coating performance [89,158,299,300]. Obviously, different substrates will have different electrochemical characteristics, which may lead to different coating formation and protection behaviors.…”