The development of advanced self-lubricating materials and coatings is a potentially promising approach for improving frictional, protection and wear properties in surface engineering and is a target to replace grease-, oil-48 and noble-metal lubricated systems within high-load, low-temperature mechanisms. Copper-metal matrix composites (CMMCs) could serve as the frictional material in electrical sliding contacts, such as brushes, bearing bushings and contact wires, due to excellent thermal and electrical properties, as well as to expand into new horizons, including incorporation into high-speed transport and aerospace mechanisms. The inclusion of graphene into CMMCs has been proposed to enhance the desired mechanical functionalities of the copper, acting as second-phase reinforcement to improve hardness and fracture toughness by blocking dislocation motion and to generate a lubricating medium upon sliding contact of the composite. Previous studies have shown that 0.025 wt.% reduced graphene oxide in sintered CMMC improves yield stresses by ~ 100%. 1.1 wt.% rGO inclusion into an electrodeposited CMMC coating improves the surface microhardness by ~ 30%, while a CMMC coating with 0.83 wt.% GO protects against corrosion by up to 94.9 %. Furthermore, low graphitic loadings (sub-10 wt%) into copper films greatly diminish frictional losses under low contact pressure nano-and macrotribological testing. Flurographenes have been utilized in oil-based and polymer-based lubricating formulations. However, the incorporation of fluorographenes into metal composites has scarcely been explored. It is still a challenge to homogeneously disperse graphenes in metal matrices with robust interfacial bonding, as the chemical inertness of both graphene and copper limits their interfacial compatibility within the composite. Other factors include; their varying wettabilities and thermal expansion coefficients causing structural defects and the low stability of graphene dispersion within traditional, aqueous copper-based plating solutions inhibiting uniform distribution of the nanomaterials within the matrix. By promoting good interfacial interactions between the components of CMMCs it is possible to improve its frictional performance. Therefore, improving the dispersibility and interaction parameters between graphene and copper is key to obtaining high tribological performance. This has been explored recently by employing functionalised graphenes (such as graphene oxides ), however, the subsequent tribo-induced chemical reactions on the functionalised composites rarely examine the role of the dopant moieties within sliding contact.