“…Bulk MAX phases have been made by hot pressing (HP) of elemental powders, by the sintering of a mixture of elements or compounds under isostatic pressure at high temperature [14-19,22-25,27,29,105,118], by pressureless sintering [119-125], by a solid–liquid reaction synthesis [21,126-128], by a mechanically and thermally [14,129-131] or laser induced [132], high temperature self-propagation reaction (SHS), by an SHS method followed by uniaxial HP [133], by SPS [9,27,28,134] and by a strong magnetic field alignment (SMFA) technique followed by SPS [135-139] or by pulse discharge sintering [140-143]. For the synthesis of single-phase bulk Cr 2 AlC a temperature range of 1050–1100°C and a high pressure appeared to be required [4,5,10…”