“…In fact, air plasma-sprayed nanostructure Al 2 O 3 -13 wt% TiO 2 coating demonstrated better mechanical and corrosion properties than the conventional Al 2 O 3 -13 wt% TiO 2 coating [13,19,21,23,[29][30][31][32][33]. However, there still remains one major problem concerning plasma spraying, which is the presence of lamellar structures and microdefects including pores and micro-cracks; these tend to reduce the hardness and deteriorate the wear and corrosion performances of the coatings [20,29,31]. It is interesting to note that the use of decreasing current values involves lower plasma power, lower temperature of the sprayed particles, and therefore higher retention of the nanostructured areas and lower coating density [22], which may be observed in the plasma-sprayed nanostructure Al 2 O 3 -13 wt% TiO 2 coatings on the Mg alloys.…”