“…The oriented green body obtained after slip casting can be further processed to obtain a fully dense textured sample. Such a process has already been successfully applied to oxides, , carbides, − nitrides, , and borides, for instance, but rarely applied to TMS. , Indeed, CrSi 2 is a good candidate to demonstrate the usefulness of this texturation method for TE TMS because, to our knowledge, (i) no data is available in the literature on textured polycrystalline samples, (ii) its congruent melting facilitates the synthesis of large amount of material prepared by conventional fusion/solidification processes, and (iii) it has a simple crystal structure compared to other TMS (MnSi 1.74 has an aperiodic crystal structure , and β-FeSi 2 presents stacking faults), which make the realization of texture analyses easier. In this article, the texturation process is first described in detail and the optimal synthesis conditions are discussed.…”