sintered in a time scale that is much faster than the time scale for oxidation such that minimal oxidation occurs this has significant and far reaching implications the current invention allows inexpensive materials that had previously been discounted because of oxidation issues to be used in existing and new applications material such as but not limited to metals and transition metals like copper iron zinc titanium zirconium magnesium tin aluminum nickel cobalt indium antimony and lead tray be usable in addition these materials can be used on low temperature substrates as well as high temperature substrate with this process it may also be useful to use combinations of materials or alloys of materials combinations of materials may allow expensive and inexpensive materials and highly conductive and moderately conductive materials to be processed to tailor costs and conductivity additionally it may be possible to mix two or more compounds such that when they are heated they react or form an alloy some alloys when formed may release energy that helps to further sinter the material for example a test was performed using copper with an oxide layer and a small amount of nano aluminum in this case the copper oxide and aluminum when heated will result in a thermitic reaction this reaction releases a substantial amount of heat that aids in further heating and sintering the copper a side benefit is that the products of the reaction.