“…PEO process is impacted by different parameters such as nature of substrate material, electrolyte constituents, the density of the current, type of current, voltage, frequency, duty cycle, additives, particles incorporated, coating time, and operational temperature [ 3 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 ]. Although this process has been widely used for materials such as aluminum and its alloys [ 50 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 ], and magnesium and its alloys [ 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ], the focus of more recent research on PEO coatings are oriented towards other valve metals like titanium [ 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 ], tantalum [ 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ], zirconium [ 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 ], and niobium and all their different alloys [ 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 ]. Moreover, there has also been considerable work reported on zinc modification by the PEO process [ 81 , 82 ,…”