“…Activities related to tribology and surface engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande -FURG started in 2016 when Prof. Henara Costa moved from LTM/ UFU to FURG, culminating with the creation of the Laboratory of Surface Engineering (LabSurf) in 2019. The works span from surface engineering techniques such as surface modifications [113,280,[320][321][322][323][324][325][326][327][328][329][330][331][332] and different coating technologies [112,113,[333][334][335] to their effects on surface topography [102,103,121,326,[336][337][338], surface hardness [339][340][341], machinability [2], formability [337,342,343], corrosion [335,[344][345][346], tribological performance [13, 50-52, 113,280,320,322,333,337,347,348] and tribo...…”