Lopes, J. G.Oliveira, J. P.2025-11-032025-11-032025-091996-1944PURE: 134809196PURE UUID: 8528b7ea-4fa5-4c0b-9857-249e9e4e5fadScopus: 105015965177WOS: 001569956100001http://hdl.handle.net/10362/190066Funding Information: J.G.L. and J.P.O. acknowledge the funding from national funds, FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the projects LA/P/0037/2020, IDP/50025/2020, and UIDB/50025/2020 of the Associate Laboratory Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication—i3N. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 by the authors.Ceramic carbide coatings function as protecting components when subjected to extreme mechanical and/or high-temperature conditions. In this regard, the literature emphasizes that the compositionally complex design concept can be employed to improve the ceramic coating properties via compositional tuning, similarly to high-entropy alloys. At this moment, such studies are mainly based on the development of tribological coatings to obtain durable and low-friction surface barriers and to produce ablation-resistant barriers by forming stable oxide scales with self-healing mechanisms. Moreover, it can also be observed that the integration of computational design methods to predict and accelerate the discovery of optimized compositionally complex carbide ceramic coating systems is a viable possibility.132738219engCarbidesCoatingsCompositionally complex ceramicsEntropy-stabilized ceramicsHigh-entropy carbidesMedium-entropy carbidesGeneral Materials ScienceCondensed Matter Physicsreview10.3390/ma18173953https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105015965177https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:001569956100001