**1. Introduction**

Surface is responsible for the serviceability of the components and the surface engineering is a multidisciplinary activity dedicated to modify the surface according to their functional necessity and where the substrate do not have the capacity. Surface characteristics for engineering applications and in our daily life are:

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As indicated by other authors, these properties can be enhanced by microstructural changes and phase transformations (metallurgically), by deformations (mechanically), by chemical reactions, and diffusion that modify the surface chemistry or by adding coatings by physical and chemical methods [1]. Industrial plant efficiency can be affected by corrosion and wear damage in such a way that the economic losses associated with this failure mechanism can be quantified as a percentage of a country's gross domestic product annually. In some cases, the corrosion like a failure mechanism may initiate or precede to the wear failure or vice versa, depending of the medium nature; however, the combined effect of corrosion and wear can reduce the component life drastically.

The use of more alloyed steels to improve the surface hardness and corrosion resistance means to use expensive steels with respect to the carbon or low alloy steels, so that several efforts have been made for the protection against corrosion-erosion but with a low efficiency such as the use of inhibitors and the applications of cathodic or anodic currents.

Use of organic, inorganic or metallic coatings have been a good alternative for corrosion and wear protection where the proper selection depends on the accessibility, component size, environment conditions (composition, concentration, pressure, and temperature), and cost; nevertheless, the wide variety of coatings and process development for a lot of corrosive and wear environments are not enough yet, considering which exist different corrosion forms depending on the mechanism of attack that combined with the types of wear, reducing the possibility of getting the best protection.

Tribocorrosion is the concept that explains the surface degradation mechanism when mechanical wear and chemical/electrochemical processes interact with each other [2]. Many industries show damages associated with the tribocorrosion mechanism such as aeronautic, geothermic energy generation, paper industry, and making steel to name a few. To solve the combined failure mechanisms of corrosion and erosion, different alloy systems deposited with the same process have been studied in monolayers as well as multilayers; in this context, the techniques combination, which can offer a variety of coatings with the enough thickness of corrosion protection, with the homogeneous dispersion of fine particles, high hardness, and lubricant properties, has motivated the development of composite coatings where the electrodeposition techniques can offer metal matrix composite coatings, though the co-deposition of nanoparticles with superior properties at low cost.
