“…The majority of studies performed until 2007 in this Institute and other research organizations were conducted using a facility developed and manufactured by a research team led by Raichenko in 1976 [ 5 ]. In the following years, ERAN 2/1 set-up was also used in Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science [ 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 ]. In 2008–2010, Gevorkyan and Gutsalenko in Kharkov published a series of articles on sintering of ceramic materials using a hot-pressing facility with direct current heating [ 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 ].…”