Guanghua Liu is an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests are in materials processing, combustion synthesis, and advanced ceramics.Kexin Chen is a professor in the State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. His areas of research focus on ductile ceramics, combustion synthesis, and nitride ceramic materials with high thermal conductivity. Jiangtao Li is a professor at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He is mainly interested in advanced ceramics, combustion synthesis, and infrared radiant coatings.

• 1. IntroductionPart I. Fundamentals2. Fundamentals of combustion synthesisPart II. Processing3. General processing of combustion synthesis4. Hybrid processes based on combustion synthesis5. Simultaneous densification in combustion synthesis6. Reactive casting by combustion synthesis7. High-gravity combustion synthesis8. Welding and joining by combustion synthesisPart III. Materials9. Combustion synthesis of carbide powders10. Combustion synthesis of nitride powders: Part 111. Combustion synthesis of nitride powders: Part 212. Combustion synthesis of oxide powders13. Combustion synthesis of oxynitride powders14. Combustion synthesis of silicide powders15. Combustion synthesis of boride, chalcogenide, and other powders16. Combustion synthesis of bulk ceramics and metals17. Combustion synthesis of bulk functional materials18. Combustion synthesis of coatings19. Concluding remarks