“…With the advantages of time and energy savings, simplicity, and high-purity products, the mechanochemical process represents an attractive alternative to the conventional methods in producing advanced materials, including borides, carbides, nitrides, intermetallics, etc. We have so far applied the mechanochemical technique to the synthesis of carbides and/ or borides of Mo, Ti, and B [18][19][20][21]. The common point of all these reactions is a great amount of the heat created as a result of the exothermic reaction between metal oxides and aluminum/magnesium during the aluminothermic/magnesiothermic reduction.…”