“…Phosphate coatings are the most often used form of steel surface treatment due to the reasons which include their good adhesion, high corrosion resistance, improved abrasive resistance of the structure, and acceptable costs of the manufacturing [1,2,3,4]. Corrosion protection for steel could be achieved by the application of modified phosphate [2,3,4], zinc phosphate [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18], iron phosphate [19,20,21], as well as manganese phosphate coatings [22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. It was found that, of the above-mentioned phosphate coatings, the manganese phosphate coatings have the highest hardness in addition to their remarkable corrosion and wear resistance [30].…”