“…Al alloys were usually employed as protection layers on the surface of Mg-alloy components, since Al exhibits a good metallurgy consistency with the Mg and greatly improves the strength and corrosion resistance of Mg alloys [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. A variety of melting technologies have been developed to deposit alloy layers on components for cladding [ 15 ], dissimilar joints [ 16 ], and additive manufacturing [ 17 ], such as selective laser melting [ 18 , 19 , 20 ], cold-arc melting [ 21 , 22 ], electron-beam melting [ 23 , 24 , 25 ], and so on. These high-energy melting methods have become advanced technologies in the surface engineering and remanufacturing engineering of Mg alloy components, since rapid heating, melting, and cooling provide extreme non-equilibrium conditions that cannot be achieved by conventional methods, so that the parts formed gain excellent comprehensive properties [ 26 , 27 , 28 ].…”