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　  Combustion Synthesis: Novel Routes to Novel Materials, of which the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), CAS, wrote two chapters, was recently published by the Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.. The two chapters were written by Prof. XUE Qunji, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Prof. LIU Weimin, doctor BI Qinling and doctor YANG Jun of the LICP at the invitation of Australian Prof. Maximilian Lackner.

　  The book has 16 chapters and can be divided into two sections. In the first section, recent progress in new combustion synthesis technologies, especially some green synthesis techniques, including emulsion combustion synthesis, gel combustion synthesis method, cellulose-assisted combustion synthesis, solution combustion synthesis, salt-assisted combustion synthesis, microwave-assisted combustion synthesis, combustion synthesis melt casting, is introduced. In the second section the introduction to the combustion synthesis of nano-powder, nano-bulk materials and functional materials, and their special structure and performance is provided.

　  Researchers of the LICP wrote two chapters of the book, namely Chapter 8: Combustion synthesis melt-casting and Chapter 11: Combustion synthesis of alloys. Chapter 8 introduces the characteristics, current research status and development of combustion synthesis melt-casting. In Chapter 11, the fundamental tenets of the preparation of alloys by combustion synthesis and nano-structure formation mechanism of alloys put forward by the LICP are presented; the nano-structure and property of several nano-alloys prepared by combustion synthesis are introduced as well.