Combustion synthesis of nanopowder ceramic powders

Abstract

The combustion process is an important powder preparation process by which several hundred compounds may be prepared. The process is, in the simplest sense, the exploitation of an exothermic and usually very rapid chemical reaction to produce a useful material. It is a versatile process to synthesize any kind of single phase, multiphase or composite on a nanophase-scale. This review presents the thermochemical concepts and aspects of the mechanism that occurs under conditions of the combustion and examples of powders synthesized by this process.