“…Pack cementation is regarded as a versatile and economical process frequently employed in energy, aerospace and other industries to make aluminide diffusion coatings on nickel-base superalloys or iron-based alloys [1,2,3,4]. However, there has been an increasing industrial demand to develop this generic technology to allow depositions of diffusion coatings on titanium-based alloys, which would provide long-term stability for the alloys at high temperatures in oxidative and corrosive environments [5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. The formation of a continuous α-Al 2 O 3 scale on the high Al-containing coating (i.e., Al 3 Ti) deposited by pack cementation and its barrier function to slow down the inward diffusion of oxygen into the substrates attribute to the improved oxidation behaviours of the Ti-based alloys [12,13,14,15,16,17].…”