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Titanium aluminum nitride ((Ti,Al)N) thin films are widely used as hard protective coating materials. Due to their remarkable tensile strength and elastic modulus carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are an ideal candidate as reinforcing components in such coatings. In this work (Ti,Al)N thin films were deposited on steel substrate by reactive magnetron sputtering and CNTs were grown on top by chemical vapor deposition...