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Aluminium is ductile, carbon is brittle. You can't reinforce one with the other, because the ductile material carries all the load. Either the brittle material needs to be strong enough to resist failure on its own, which means the ductile material is doing nothing; or if the ductile material is the stronger part of the laminate then the brittle material will fail first and be doing nothing.
If the aim is to increase thickness for whatever reason then that's fine, adding carbon is a lightweight way to do that. But structurally speaking, it won't be stronger.
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