“…Through this method, referred to in the literature as FACS (Field-Assisted Combustion Synthesis), the synthesis of materials heretofore not possible by normal SHS (e.g., SiC, SiC-AlN, TaC, B 4 C-TiB 2 , MoSi 2 -SiC, and Ti 3 Al) was successfully demonstrated (cf. Feng and Munir, 1995a;Xue and Munir, 1996a;Xue and Munir, 1996b;Xue and Munir, 1997;Gedevanishvili and Munir, 1998;Orrù et al, 1999b). SHS and FACS processes are typically characterized by high temperatures (up to about 3500 K), reaction waves which propagate at relatively high speeds (up to 25 cm/s), and low energy requirements, etc.…”