“…Nanoparticles of titanium compounds can be prepared through several methods: carbothermal reduction of titanium oxide (TiO 2 ) using carbon (Chandra et al, 2009;Gotoh et al, 2001;Sen et al, 2010;Taguchi et al, 2007;Wen et al, 2011), gas-phase laser induced plasma (Leconte et al, 2007), thermal plasma (Cheng and Watanabe, 2011), reduction in liquid phase (Lee et al, 2007;Lu et al, 1999), mechanical milling (Baviera et al, 2001;Rahaei et al, 2012), and self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS), which is also known as combustion synthesis in the solid phase (Camurlu and Maglia, 2009;Khanra et al, 2003Khanra et al, , 2004Nekahi and Firoozi, 2011;Nersisyan et al, 2002Nersisyan et al, , 2003.…”