Materials from controlled exothermic reactions

Technical ceramics, shape‐memory alloys and catalysts are among teh materials which can be produced using self‐propagating high‐temperature synthesis (SHS). The high‐temperatures and synthesis rates result in self‐purification, self annealing and self‐purfication phenomena which lead to materials which differ considerably in structure from those conventionally produced. The method and its applications are described by one of its discoverers.