“…WS 2 has superior lubricity (Xu et al, 2014;Scharf et al, 2006), thereby attracts growing attention as a kind of antifriction coating (Lian et al, 2018;Deepthi et al, 2018;Li et al, 2014), but WS 2 coating is not durable due to extremely low hardness. Therefore, doped WS 2 coatings were developed to improve their wear resistance, including WS 2 /Cr (Deepthi et al, 2010), WS 2 /Ni (Xu et al, 2017;Roy et al, 2017), WS 2 /Cu (Xu et al, 2014), WS 2 /Ag (Quan et al, 2017), WS 2 /Ti (Banerjee and Chattopadhyay, 2014), WS 2 /C (Cao et al, 2017), etc.…”