Contents

### **Preface XI**


Chapter 6 **Sintering and Reactive Sintering by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) 123** Giulia Franceschin, Nancy Flores‐Martínez, Gabriela Vázquez‐ Victorio, Souad Ammar and Raul Valenzuela

Chapter 7 **Selective Laser Sintering of Nanoparticles 147** Sukjoon Hong

#### Chapter 8 **High-Pressure High-Temperature (HPHT) Synthesis of Functional Materials 165** Wallace Matizamhuka

Preface

activities of this manuscript's authors.

ence and related disciplines.

Powder-based materials and treatment technologies rank high in contemporary scientifictechnical progress due to their numerous significant technoeconomic qualities. Sintering of such materials allows saving on materials and lowering the cost price of the product, as well as manufacturing complex composite materials with unique combinations of qualities. Ma‐ terials of record high values of some physic-mechanical and also biochemical characteristics

Sintering of functional materials for innovative perspectives in automotive and aeronautical engineering, space technology, lightweight construction, mechanical engineering, modern design, and many other applications requires established relationship in the materials-proc‐ ess-properties system. Therefore, the industry being interested in understanding theoretical modeling and control over behavior of such powdered materials has promoted the research

The authors of the chapters hope that this book will serve as introduction into the world of sintering of functional materials for the graduate and postgraduate students in materials sci‐

Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara Branch,

**Prof. Igor Shishkovsky**

Samara, Russian Federation

can be obtained owing to structural peculiarities of super dispersed condition.
