Abstract
The combustion synthesis is a new chemical process with highly exothermic reaction spontaneously propagating through the reactant with converting into compound. Many refractory materials of borides, carbides, nitrides, silicides and other compounds having high formation energies are easily formed by igniting the mixed powders of their constituent elements. A variety of applications to the materials development can be expected for the combustion synthesis because of its high temperature, rapid and economic process. This review presents the reaction analysis of the combustion synthesis, and its applications to the powder synthesis of nitrides and the gas-pressure combustion sintering of boride and carbide ceramics.
