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Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and potentiodynamic polarization curves (PDP) were used to evaluate the corrosion resistance of the specimens after 7 days immersion in a 3.5% NaCl solution. The corrosion resistance of the prefabricated coatings was measured via local electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (LEIS). Confocal microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to characterize the microstructure and phase composition of the specimens. An energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) was used to detect the elemental composition of the surface of the specimen. The results showed that the specimen with nano-SiO2\/MAO composite coating had the least amount of micropores and superior corrosion resistance. The global electrochemical impedance of nano-SiO2\/MAO composite coating was 1.1 times higher than that of the MAO coating and 8.4 times higher than that of the 6061 Al. When the coating was defective, the local electrochemical impedance of the nano-SiO2\/MAO composite coating was still two times higher than that of the MAO coating. In the presence of scratches, the nano-SiO2\/MAO composite coating still showed high corrosion resistance. The collapse corrosion mechanism of the nano-SiO2\/MAO composite coating was proposed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma16206721","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,17]],"date-time":"2023-10-17T08:25:09Z","timestamp":1697531109000},"page":"6721","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Local Electrochemical Corrosion of 6061 Aluminum Alloy with Nano-SiO2\/MAO Composite Coating"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Jie","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Safety Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7045-2625","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongwei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Safety Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2688-863X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaoyu","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanhong","family":"Gu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yida","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"577","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jallcom.2016.12.269","article-title":"Castability and mechanical properties of new 7xxx aluminum alloys for automotive chassis\/body applications","volume":"698","author":"Shin","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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