“…The existing studies about aluminide coatings are mainly focused on their microstructures, mechanical properties and oxidation behavior [10,11,13,14,51], but limited information is available regarding the AlNi formation kinetics and solid state transformations when it grows from Ni-based substrates exposed to Al-rich media at elevated temperatures. In such cases, the AlNi intermetallic constitutes the main phase in the diffusion coating, and it is thus necessary to study the evolution of its formation as function of time and temperature.…”