Guanghua Liu is an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests are in materials processing, combustion synthesis, and advanced ceramics. Kexin Chen is a professor in the State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. His areas of research focus on ductile ceramics, combustion synthesis, and nitride ceramic materials with high thermal conductivity. Jiangtao Li is a professor at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He is mainly interested in advanced ceramics, combustion synthesis, and infrared radiant coatings.