“…Much research has been done to provide the additional energy source, such as adding chemical promoter, 6 using microwave energy, 7 or carrying out preheating treatment. 8,9 In this work, the synthesis of nano-sized -SiC powders was realized, first and successfully in air, by both pre-reaction mechanical activation (named hereafter as MA) treatment of the Si and C reactant mixture and the SHS process. The main…”