Ceramic Powder Synthesis by SHS

SHS is particularly suited to the synthesis of refractory ceramic powders and compacts such as carbides of Ti, Si, Cr, Ta, and B, borides of Ti, V and Cr, nitrides of B, Ti, Al, Si, sihcides of Mo, Ti and V, or even more complex compounds such as YBa2Cu307-,. The thermodynamic basis of the process, the individual types of SHS processing techniques, and the equipment and post-synthesis processing to obtain powder compacts have been reviewed by Yukhvid (1992). 

Intermetallic compound coatings on carbon steel, such as NiAl with excellent bond strength, were synthesized by solar energy concentrated by a Fresnel lens (Rogriguez et al., 1999). The SHS technique can also be used to immobilize radioactive reactor graphite waste by the self-sustaining reaction  

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