To synthesis of materials by combustion: CCSO and CSS data now available

• Main combustion techniques used currently for production of structured materials.
• Convection combined radiation impact (CCRI) into the front heat flux as a measure for management of the CCSO and CSS product grains scale.
• Advantages of a battery with nanostructured electrodes with respect to those micro-structured or macro-structured.
• Range of CCRI providing submicro structured or nanostructured products by CCSO and CSS.
• Range of combustion temperatures and velocities providing submicro structured or nanostructured products by CCSO and CSS.

This review is a continuation of the previous ones published by one of the authors and is devoted to the combustion community last results related to synthesis of materials and especially to the carbon combustion synthesis of oxides (CCSO) and combustion synthesis of sulfides (CSS). The reason of such an unusual transition from the electric and energetic aspects of the combustion synthesis considered previously to its material properties is explained by the rigid correlation of the product structure and the combustion electric/thermal characteristics. Therefore, even a negligible shift in the combustion front voltage/heat flux leads to strong variations in the combustion product scale. We have just generalized both the thermal and electric aspects in relation to the scale of products obtained.