“…Therefore, the epoxy group of GPTMS is known to be able to encourage crosslinking with inorganic networks such as silicon found in TEOS, which can provide better mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, and flexibility of coatings [33][34][35] In addition, organic silanes increasing the flexibility and ductility of coatings, with decreased curing temperature and time [36,37]. As a result, the applied sol-gel films are expected to have lower cracking sensitivity, less porosity, high flexibility and corrosion resistance [38,39]. Tong et al (2019), investigated alkoksysilane modified coatings and they indicated in order to obtain excellent anti-corrosion performance, super hydrophobic coating is required in their study.…”