“…The literature describes various techniques to produce functional MMC coatings, such as physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), chemical reduction (CR) or electroless process, dip coating, thermal spraying (TS), brush plating (painting) (BP), electrophoretic deposition, and electroplating (electrochemical codeposition). All of these processes aim to achieve coatings with improved uniformity, good reproducibility, high adhesion, high deposition rate, low roughness, and low cost [12][13][14][15]. It is important to mention that these features, as well as the coating morphology and microstructure, the incorporated particle size (particle clusters), and the amount of particle in the coating, depend on both the substrate and the deposition process used to produce the MMC coatings, influencing the properties of the coating/substrate system [16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”