Steel is the material of choice for switching mechanisms, contacts and mechanical assemblies used under special environments and extreme working conditions. However, to achieve a suitable performance of steel alloys within the application domain, with the ability to operate many thousands of times within a low load assembly (Herzian contact pressures < 500 MPa), two key limitations are needed to be overcome: 1) Mechanical friction is the ubiquitous force that resists motion when two mutually contacting surfaces are moved relative to each other, due to sliding and rolling wear, fatigue load and fretting damage over its operational lifetime, seriously reducing the service life of components. 2) metal corrosion, which is triggered by environmental factors such as the presence of oxygen 6 , water , ultraviolet (UV) and electrolytes , can adversely affect the infrastructure of mechanical assemblies. Reports indicate that approximately 23% and 20% of the world's energy consumption is lost to friction and corrosion, respectively. Applying coatings to steel contacts can provide a route to minimise, protect and prevent the effects of friction, wear and corrosion within switch assemblies, which would reduce failures, in addition to improving energy efficiencies and lowering their environmental impact. Copper-coating of mechanical components and surfaces is commonplace in industry due to the coatings' excellent chemical and physical properties imparted onto the surface of a component. These include; its high thermoelectrical conductivities, corrosion resistance and antimicrobial properties. However, the application of copper coatings within contact mechanisms is limited due to its poor wear resistance under applied load. Therefore, improving the wear resistance of copper has become a key issue for use in high-performance mechanical components. Lamellar materials such as graphite have been extensively used as solid lubricants over the last 60 years. As a popular solid lubricant, graphite possesses many attractive features; excellent mechanical properties, low friction coefficient from its low anisotropic shear strength and good wear resistance. Its two-dimensional analogue, graphene, has shown significant promise in ultralow friction in both nanoscale and microscale lubrication, supported by in silico measurements. The materials' extremely high strength, low shear resistance, relatively low cost and comparably high thermal conduction and dissipation performances are attributed to the materials' 2D-lamellar structures. while due to its unique structure and chemical properties, graphene is essentially impermeable to most chemicals and gases. Thus, it can be considered as a corrosion barrier providing high protection even in coatings of a few nm thicknesses. More recently a fluorine-functionalised derivative, fluorographene, has been explored as a potential candidate for macroscale low-friction lubrication. Theoretically, the chemical and physical structures of fluorographenes should provide a route to ultralow friction. However, this has not been borne out experimentally, as increased defect generation during fluorination increased the nanomaterials' shear strengths in macroscale sliding.