“…AFA steel will face enormous challenges when the environment has a high temperature, high oxidation, high friction, and wear (such as the erosion of flowing supercritical water, supercritical carbon dioxide, liquid metal, etc.). Many previous studies [11][12][13] have shown that one of the most effective ways to enhance wear resistance and surface hardness is by coating it. Coating technology can be broadly categorised into two groups: one is thermal diffusion type, including gas diffusion infiltration, hot dip coating, packcementation, 13 and high-energy beam surface treatment 14,15 ; the other is deposition type, including physical vapour deposition, [16][17][18][19] chemical vapour deposition, [20][21][22] electroplating, 23,24 spraying, 25,26 micro-arc oxidation, 27,28 etc.…”