“…Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs) based on transition metal borides, carbides, nitrides, carbonitrides, etc., possess a combination of desirable chemico-physical and mechanical properties (melting point above 3000 °C, high hardness, low density, chemical inertness, good electrical and thermal conductivity, low neutron absorption, selective solar energy absorption, etc.) which makes them candidate materials to operate under severe environments like in the aerospace as well as other innovative and traditional fields [1][2][3][4][5]. Such potential promoted a significant effort by several research groups in the last two decades to: a) identify suitable synthesis/consolidation methods for the obtainment of various members of this materials family, and b) characterize in detail the resulting products.…”