“…The choice of the cladding elements is based on the desire to create not only a composite with hard carbide particles and an intermetallic matrix, but also a potentially biocompatible coating. Similar to titanium alloys, cobalt alloys have been widely used in biomedical and dental devices [19,20]. Titanium-cobalt intermetallics also have beneficial properties, with high hardness, good wear resistance, high-temperature phase stability and corrosion resistance reported [8,[21][22][23][24][25].…”