Zuhair A. Munir

TL;DR: In this article, the use of electric current to activate the consolidation and reaction-sintering of materials is reviewed with special emphasis of the spark plasma sintering method, which has been used extensively over the past decade with results showing clear benefits over conventional methods.

TL;DR: A review of the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) method is presented in this article, which emphasizes the mechanisms of the rapid, non-isothermal reactions associated with this method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the fundamental aspects of the sintering process and identify the intrinsic benefits of the use of the parameters of current (and pulsing), pressure, and heating rate.

TL;DR: In this article, current and heat generation gradients were evaluated in the radial and axial directions for both cases, in order to investigate current and temperature distributions under typical spark plasma sintering (SPS) conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of combustion and plasmas synthesis of high-temperature materials, including self-propagation hightemperature synthesis, modeling and numerical computation of a nonsteady SHS process, new modes of quasi-periodic burning in combustion synthesis, synthesis of intermetallic compounds, combustion synthesis of nickel aluminides, advanced ceramics via SHS, simultaneous combustion synthesis and densification of AlN, and oxide-carbide composites.