“…Therefore, HfC has been researched extensively as promising anti-oxidative coatings at high temperature, and on the other side it also has been investigated as hard protective films. Moreover, many techniques have been used for preparation of HfC films such as chemical vapor deposition [19,21,22], reactive melt infiltration [18], solid-phase sintering [23], electron beam deposition [17], pulsed laser ablation [16,24], magnetron sputtering, etc. [25].…”