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However, traditional electrical contact materials encountered significant bottlenecks in terms of performance enhancement and production environmental friendliness. Therefore, this paper proposes a new material design idea that utilizes \u03c0-\u03c0 interactions between graphene and compounds with conjugated structures in order to achieve uniform dispersion of graphene in the metal matrix and thus enhance the performance of composites. Based on this design idea, we used nicotinic acid, which has a conjugated structure and is safe, as the complexing agent, and successfully prepared high-quality silver-graphene (Ag-G) composite coatings with graphene uniformly dispersed in the metal matrix on copper substrates by composite electrodeposition technique. Subsequently, the mechanical properties of composite coatings were investigated by hardness test and X-ray diffractometer, and the tribological properties of the composite coatings and the comprehensive performance under the current carrying conditions were systematically evaluated by using friction and wear tester and load key life tester. The results show that the Ag-G composite coatings have significant advantages in mechanical, tribological, and current carrying conditions. 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