“…Due to these properties, WC-Co coatings are widely used for applications where high mechanical performance and corrosion resistance are required, such as for the turbine blades of hydroelectric power plants, airplane landing gear, diesel engines, and rollers in paper industries [13][14][15]. WC-Co materials can be applied by the high velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) method as coatings on steel [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] and aluminum alloys [7,8], as well as by the high velocity air-fuel (HVAF) method [27], plasma spraying [27][28][29][30], low pressure plasma spraying [27], and in the form of electrospark granules [31]. The resulting materials have been employed for various purposes when high resistance to abrasion, sliding, fretting, and erosion is required, with these properties depending on the density and particle size of the powder, spraying conditions, and the spray technique used [7,12,15,32].…”