The corrosion process of tinplate in 0.5 mol/L NaCl solution was investigated using the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy（EIS）,and the morphology and structure of the corrosion products were characterized by scanning electron microscope（SEM）,scanning probe microscopy（SPM）,X-ray diffraction（XRD） and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy（XPS）.The results showed that the resistance of tin coating,Rc,was essentially constant but the charge transfer resistance,Rct,decreased by 2 orders of magnitude,which indicated that the tin coating was not seriously corroded while the carbon steel substrate was corroded continuously.The corrosion of tinplate in 0.5 mol/L NaCl solution was mainly the dissolution of carbon steel substrate because of the defects in the tin layer and the corrosion product was mainly γ-FeOOH.
