Combustion Synthesis

Guanghua Liu is an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests are in materials processing, combustion synthesis, and advanced ceramics. Kexin Chen is a professor in the State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. His areas of research focus cover ceramic materials and combustion synthesis. Jiangtao Li is a professor at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He is mainly interested in nitride ceramics and combustion synthesis.

1. Introduction

Part I. Fundamentals
2. Fundamentals of combustion synthesis

Part II. Processing
3. General processing of combustion synthesis
4. Hybrid processes based on combustion synthesis
5. Simultaneous densification in combustion synthesis
6. Reactive casting by combustion synthesis
7. High-gravity combustion synthesis
8. Welding and joining by combustion synthesis

Part III. Materials
9. Combustion synthesis of carbide powders
10. Combustion synthesis of nitride powders: Part 1
11. Combustion synthesis of nitride powders: Part 2
12. Combustion synthesis of oxide powders
13. Combustion synthesis of oxynitride powders
14. Combustion synthesis of silicide powders
15. Combustion synthesis of boride, chalcogenide, and other powders
16. Combustion synthesis of bulk ceramics and metals
17. Combustion synthesis of bulk functional materials
18. Combustion synthesis of coatings
19. Concluding remarks