Thermodynamics self-propagating synthesis

Combustion synthesis also termed self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) is a strong exothermic chemical reaction that leads to the formation of new thermodynamically stable materials with structures often not obtained under different reaction conditions. In some way or the other, both Goldschmidt and Matignon (Chapter 2) can be considered to be the first to have apphed this concept successfully to synthesize materials. However, the term SHS in today s perception is linked mainly to the work of Russian Chemist Alexander G. Merzhanov ( 1931) who has been working on this concept since the 1960s [1, 2]. 

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