“…Since both B 4 C and TiB 2 have high hardness and high melting points as well as chemical stability at elevated temperature, the B 4 C-TiB 2 composites were expected to be used for advanced structural materials. TiB 2 can be prepared by carbothermic reduction of mixed oxides of titanium and boron, reduction of mixed oxides by metals like aluminum, magnesium and silicon, reduction of titanium oxide by boron carbide and carbon or synthesized from the elements by heating, mechanical alloying or self-propagating high temperature synthesis [12][13][14] , pulsed electric current sintering 15 , mechanochemical synthesis 16 , dc magnetron sputtering 17 and milling assisted sol-gel [18][19][20][21] .…”