Development Status of Nano Tungsten Carbide Powder in China
Nanocrystalline cemented carbide is a tool material developed in recent years. It is based on nano tungsten carbide powder . The cemented carbide with high hardness, high wear resistance and high toughness has been produced under the condition of adding proper binder and grain growth inhibitor, its performance is obviously higher than that of conventional cemented carbide. It has been widely used in hard metal materials, cutting tools, micro drills in the electronics industry, precision molds, medical fields and other fields. In the aspect of ultrafine or nanocrystalline cemented carbide, there are only a few countries in the world such as the United States, Japan, Sweden and so on, which can produce alloy with both high hardness (HRA>90) and high strength (>3 200 MPa). The main difficulties come from ultrafine and nano tungsten carbide powder and other raw materials and cemented carbide production process. From 70 to 80s in China began to study the industri...