**4. Functional composite coatings with improved anticorrosive properties**

The amount of works in the literature concerning the production of functional MMC coatings with anticorrosive properties is relatively smaller than those works dealing with mechanical properties. As the anticorrosive performance of these MMC coating/substrate systems depend directly on the deposition parameters, the coatings must also be chemically, morphologically, and structurally characterized to make a relationship between the responses obtained with these analyses and the anticorrosive protection generated by the coating.
