ceramic engineering, nano-engineering, nano-composites, spark plasma sintering, reactive consolidation, flash sintering, flash SPS, nano-structured composites, nano-powders, nano-ceramic, hard ceramic, tough ceramic, flexural strength behavior, ultra-high elevated temperature strength, dynamic toughness, highly ordered nano-scale structure, self-assembled magnetite-chitosan nanostructures, boron carbide, boron suboxide, titanium diboride, tantalum boride, tantalum carbide, niobium boride, niobium carbide, zirconium boride, silicon carbide,vanadium diboride, zirconium oxide

bulk single crystals,epitaxy, optoelectronic devices