Chemically bonded aluminum coating for carbon via monocarbides
 An aluminum coated carbon article or composite, and process therefor having aluminum chemically bonded to carbon via an interface of a metal monocarbide formed in situ when an intermetallic phase comprising aluminum and a metal capable of reacting with carbon to form a metal carbide is reduced by carbon to aluminum and a metal carbide, the metal selected from the group consisting of tantalum, titanium and hafnium. 
Union Carbide Corporation
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Raymond V.
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