High-energy ball milling (HEBM) of powders is a complex process involving mixing, morphology changes, generation and evolution defects the crystalline lattice, formation new phases. This review dedicated to memory our colleague, Prof. Michail A. Korchagin (1946–2021), aims highlight his works on synthesis materials by self-propagating high-temperature (SHS) thermal explosion (TE) in HEBM mixtur...