Abstract: A brake assembly is provided that includes a wear-resistant rotor surface, or a surface prone to corrosion, wherein the surface is periodically coated with a corrosion inhibitor dispersed within the brake pad. A corrosion inhibitor, including a metal phosphate and an hydroxide encapsulated within an hydrophobic elastomer, is provided as an additive to a brake pad composition. The additive is mixed and molded, or otherwise formed and integrated with other constituents of a brake pad in the manufacture thereof. As the brake pad interfaces with the rotor upon brake application, the brake pad wears to impart a coating on an adjacent surface of the rotor. The heat of the rotor, and the properties of the corrosion inhibitor, combine to form metal phosphates that combined with hydrophobic properties of the brake pad prevent corrosion.