pH Value Affects Ammonium Paratungstate Crystal

tungsten-cy-12pH value affects average particle size and particle of ammonium paratungstate crystal; also the nucleation rate and the crystal growth rate are obviously influenced by pH value. The hydrogen ion concentration index is the ratio of the total amount and the total amount of the hydrogen ion in the solution, which is commonly called "pH", value of the acidity or alkalinity of the solution, that is, the negative value of common logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration.When the pH of solution equals to 9, adding HCL solution concentration of 1% will cause the pH decreased, and crystallization rate of APT decreased afterwards. Set experiment conditions bellows: 60℃ water bath reaction, exposure to stir. It resulted that solution produced milk white precipitate when the PH>8 and disappeared immediately after stirring; but precipitation difficult to disappear even stirring when PH<8.
 
NHC4+ hydrolysis H+ making PH suddenly decline when PH<8.2. Setting pH value range 8~7.8 after spontaneous nucleation which is superior to the 7.6~7.4, advantage to reduce the number of nuclei and the rate of formation, making the small amount of crystal nuclear steadily growing large granular products. Moreover, a narrow range of PH is beneficial to the uniform distribution of the coarse grains of ammonium. When 10% to 20% of the dilute hydrochloric acid injected to adjust pH to 6.5~7.5, then crystalline particles bulk density decreases, crystal shape regular, especially suitable for production of fine particles of ammonium paratungstate. By adjusting the crystal liquor ideal PH to 6.0~8.0, and heated up to 50℃, we obtain high purity ammonium paratungstate crystal.

Temperature Affects Ammonium Paratungstate Nucleation and Crystallization Growth

tungsten-cy-11-1Temperature of solution has an influence on ammonium paratungstate (APT) crystallization. Above room temperature, with the temperature increasing, APT crystal experience 5 steps: acicular→thin strips→schistose→cuboids→solid. The size of APT grain also gradually changes from few microns to 40~60μm. Temperature raises lead to the morphology and structure of APT crystal changing and crystal coarsened.
 
Both the process of ammonium paratungstate crystal growth and nucleation are controlled by chemical reaction steps. The APT crystal growth is an exothermic process, APT nucleation rate and crystal growth increased with solution temperature rising. Because APT crystallization process is rely on chemical reaction to produce saturated evaporation and exit a slow chemical reaction from paratungstate A→B. So, the new crystal growing up and the existed crystal increasing occurred simultaneously during the nucleation period.
 
Growth of nucleation and crystal are two processes with a trade-off relationship. When rising the temperature, on the one hand, nucleation rate constant and nucleation rate and the number of new grains increases; on the other hand temperature and crystal increasing continually make total area of solid phase enlarged, super-saturation△C decreased rapidly, which in turn inhibiting nucleation rate and crystal growth rate. Experiment shows that temperature grow up from 91.5℃ to 94.5℃, influence coefficient of the nucleation and the crystal growth rate are 0.827 and 0.933 with super-saturation falling down. At the same time, rate constant effect on influence coefficient of nucleation and the crystal growth rate are 1.616 and 1.291.
 
How the crystallization temperature affect the crystal grain size of APT ultimately depends on nucleation rate and crystal growth rate of the relative size ultimately.The experimental results show that the effect of crystallization temperature on the nucleation greater than that of crystal growth.

Tungsten Alloy FDG Shielding Container

In recent years, with the advances of imaging techniques, the application of PET also has a rapid development. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, namely fluoro-deoxy-glucose (commonly referred to as FDG, its chemical molecular formula as below), as a commonly used positron radiopharmaceutical in medical treatment also has been widely used in PET detection. Since the vast majority of cancer cells have high metabolic characteristics, their split and reproduction speed is faster than the normal cells, so their usage for glucose will increase significantly. Especially for malignant tumor cells, the the glucose consumption in the growth process is much larger than in normal tissues, so that the FDG, which is higher than normal tissue, will gather in the tumor cells. Therefore, patients after injection of FDG can be scanned by PET and form the imaging which can reflect the glucose requirements of tissue in vivo, so as to measure the brain metabolism, determine the myocardial viability and diagnose various malignant tumors. And then PET can more accurately determine the size, amount and existence form of tumors and so on.
FDG molecular formula
FDG plays an critical role in PET detection, but as mentioned earlier, FDG is a radioactive substance, which means that it's radiation will cause harm to humans. Therefore, we must focus on the storage environment and conditions of FDG. The shielding containers that commonly used for storing FDG is mainly made of tungsten alloy materials, which has the high density that can have a high radiation absorbing capability. Therefore, tungsten alloy shielding container can well shield the radioactive FDG,so as to protect the safety of the patients and the doctors.
tungsten alloy shielding containers

 

Pyrochlore Tungsten Trioxide Preparation

Pyrochlore tungsten trioxide (WO3 • 0.5H2O) WO6 makes distorted octahedral as structural motifs, building a layered structure with pore ring by a rigid skeleton top corner WO.It can be used as intermediates in the preparation of tungsten oxide, hopefully reducing tungsten process, achieve lye circulation because of its molecular sieve having mesh structure and referral stability in materials science with a wide range of applications in the tungsten smelting field.  Currently, preparing pyrochlore tungsten oxide by hydrothermal has been able to guarantee a certain response rate, but hot water containing sodium tungstate architecture is more complex, limiting the application of the law. Therefore, how to strengthen and optimize the hydrothermal reaction process to prepare pyrochlore tungsten oxide, which is very important to achieve industrialization.

In view of the WO3-soluble sodium tungstate solution, change the hydrothermal system plays the role of pH value, the paper choose tungsten trioxide as additive preparation pyrochlore type oxide, tungsten, and supplemented by carbon dioxide, sodium tungstate solution of oxalic acid pretreatment, in detail study the morphology and response rate solution resulting product under different conditions, the reaction of the various factors affecting the process are analyzed. According to the experimental data, and IR spectrum analysis tools, the reaction mechanism was discussed Hydrothermal pyrochlore type tungsten trioxide.

 Pyrochlore Tungsten Trioxide PreparationExperiment indicates:
(1) We use tungsten trioxide alone as an additive to stabilize the pH of the hydrothermal system and gain pyrochlore trioxide products, which shows the reaction rate can reach 80%. And we choose oxalic acid, CO2 to deal with Sodium tungstate , which helps to change the reaction rate, and the reaction time from more than 24h shortened to less than 8h.
(2) It is also capable of producing tungsten trioxide pyrochlore trioxide products in the pH ranges 3.5 to 8.9.
(3) The products obtained have good cubic structure, the average particle size of the particles are about 1μm by XRD, SEM analysis and other means of detection,
(4) We wash with a small amount of diluted hydrochloric acid Na element because of the product is easy to carry elements Na.
(5) The Experiment shows the use of infrared detectors is to prepare the preliminary view W2O72- pyrochlore tungsten oxide growth unit.
 

 

Differences Between Tungsten Gold-plated and Gold

The biggest difference between tungsten gold-plated and gold is their different substrate materials, tungsten gold-plated products is to plate the gold in the tungsten products surface, but its essence is still a tungsten material. While the substrate material of gold is still gold. Of course, the gold surface also can be gold-plated, as for its purpose to do so is just in order to increase the surface color of the original gold so as to achieve the purpose of pleasing. Since tungsten and gold have more similar densities, the density of gold is 19.3g / cm3, and the density of tungsten is 19.35 / cm3, so both have relatively similar touch feelings.
 
However, gold has a strong chemical affinity, so it would be easy to have a reaction with acid gases of hydrogen sulfide in the air, which will make its surface color turn to dim. The hardness of gold is inferior to tungsten gold-plated, therefore gold jewelry can be easily abraded if wearing in daily life. But for the tungsten gold-plated, its high hardness characteristic make it able to overcome the abrasion problem. In addition, tungsten has the properties of non-toxic, environmental protection, good corrosion resistance, so no matter what aspect the tungsten gold plated products apply in, they can be well maintained without changing original states, and cause no pollution to the environment. In short, from a price point of view, it’s too clearly that the tungsten gold-plated can’t compared with gold, but from the ornamental and practical point of view, tungsten gold-plated products have ability to replace the expensive gold products.
gold

 

Gold and Tungsten Gold-plated Introduction

Currently, gold is the rarest and most precious metal, which has a high storage value. It is a common special reserve currency in the world. In ancient times gold has established its precious high symbolic status, while the high ductility of gold makes it able to be made of a variety of jewelry, crafts with bright color and shape, which welcomed by the people. In accordance with national standards, the purity of gold is represented by K, the content of per K gold was 4.166%. The gold circulating in current market is mainly divided into solid gold and K gold, pure gold means that the gold content is more than 99%. As the statement we have often heard about 24K gold, in theory, the gold content should be 100 percent, but in fact the 24K gold sold on the market, general content is about 99.99%.
gold
Tungsten gold-plated means the surface of tungsten product will have a gold-plated treatment, in order to obtain a bright color just like gold in general, so as to achieve a higher ornamentation. Gold-plated is a very rigorous process, that using electrolysis or other chemical processes to make the gold attached to other objects surface so as to form a thin gold layer. Generally the gold-plated surface thickness of good gold-plated products is about 10 ~ 25μm, if the thickness is 2 ~ 3μm, then this gold-plated product is more ordinary. For the cheap products, its thickness is 0.18μm or less, and therefore it can not be called as gold-plated, but called gold-painted. With the extensive application of tungsten products, its excellent properties of non-toxic, environmental protection, good ductility and high specific gravity make it to be applied more widely. Tungsten has not only limited to be used as the materials of some equipment and the counterweights. Tungsten gold-plated can be made of many ornamental, practical and cost-effective collecting products, such as tungsten gold-plated rings, tungsten gold plated commemorative coins, tungsten gold-plated earrings, tungsten gold plated bracelet and so on.
tungsten gold plated ring

 

Mesoporous Tungsten Trioxide Application

Applications In The Field Of Catalysts
Mesoporous molecular sieve has a high specific surface area , pore structure and orderly rules, which is an excellent catalyst carrier. Solid heteropolyacid is a new type of catalytic materials with properties superacids; it is not only friendly to environment, but also possesses the advantages of high activity. In practice, it can be supported on a suitable carrier. Mesoporous materials is larger pore diameter which is good for acid anion achieves sufficiently into the role and plays the role of dispersion The tungsten trioxide (wo3) supported on niobium oxide (Nb2O5) and alumina (Al2O3), the availability of tungsten trioxide in the niobium oxide has better dispersibility. It is more likely to be restored for tungsten trioxide with solid solution. Compared with wo3 / Al2O3 catalyst, the reactions have higher activity because wo3 / Nb2O5 oxidation .

Applications In The Field Of Adsorption
 Mesoporous Tungsten Trioxide ApplicationMesoporous materials have a unique application in the field of separation and adsorption. It not only has a high adsorption capacity to nitrogen, but also can recycle all kinds of volatile organic compounds and other heavy metals. The synthesis materials of hexagonal mesoporous can absorb elements in nuclear waste, which can achieve better results.

Currently, the research of mesoporous materials tungsten trioxide faces with larger difficulties, mainly because of its complex preparation valences, there are many worthy of study and problems need to be resolved.

 

Mesoporous Tungsten Trioxide Preparation

Mesoporous material is a great aperture ratio between surface area and pore structure of the new three-dimensional microporous material that with a large hole. It has excellent properties of other porous materials are short of: a highly ordered pore structure; pore single distribution, and pore size may vary widely. Mesoporous material is diverse in shape, composition and properties of the cell wall can be regulated. We can obtain high thermal stability and hydrothermal stability by optimizing the synthesis conditions. Its allure is still in its catalysis, adsorption, separation and potential applications in many fields of light, electricity and magnetism and so on. Mesoporous material is classified according to chemical composition: silicon and non-silicon-based two categories.

Preparation of Tungsten Trioxide Mesoporous Materials
Mesoporous Tungsten Trioxide Application1. Hydrothermal
The calcination or solvent extraction remove the organic templating agent to prepared mesoporous tungsten oxide by mainly by the long-chain organic compounds as a template, a tungsten source is tungsten hexachloride. However, it is easier for tungsten oxide to collapse. And the use of an organic template was removed and extracted; it is difficult to be repeated extraction. Anhydrous ethanol as the reaction medium, a non-ionic surfactant p123 as templates, ethanol as a reactant, the use of sol-gel method, calcination at 400 ℃ 5h after preparing the mesoporous tungsten trioxide, a pore diameter of 125m / g porosity 48%.

2. Hardboard Template
We use mesoporous silica as template, make tungsten oxide remove the template with HF in its crystalline after high temperature, such methods are relatively mild conditions when removing the template, and the template is removed completely. The prepared mesoporous tungsten trioxide structure is better because the silica support as a skeleton. The template method is prepare tungsten oxide mesoporous materials that using mesoporous silica material as the template, using phosphotungstic acid as a tungsten source.

Non-mesoporous material from the synthesis, synthesis mechanism to practical applications such as synthetic technology remains immature (the collapse in the process of removing the templating agent), not green, repeatability and so on.

 

Different Ball Milling Time Effect on Tungsten Copper Powder Phase II

After high-energy ball milling, tungsten copper powder usually has lattice deformation, high-density defects and nano structure, which differ the thermodynamic and kinetic characteristics of powder system from conventional solid-state reaction and has a deviation from equilibrium properties.

It includes: 1. the continuous decrease of effective grain size and the peak movement will cause the formation of amorphous alloy; 2. the reaction component diffraction peak intensity decreased, broad-based amorphous gradually increase intensity; 3. intermediate (intermetallic compound) pre-form is further milled, resulting in an intermediate product amorphization. Overall, tungsten copper powder during the milling process after repeated deformation, cold welding distortion and tear in high energy state, also formed alternately layered structure and ultrafine microstructure, with time, each component of X-ray diffraction same position, the strength decreased.

Actually, there are several reasons: 1. High-density bit early milling wrong form, the stress field increased the elemental powders of free energy to form an alloy of the main driving forces; 2. Nano crystal formed after the high-energy ball milling with a high volume fraction of grain boundaries, the grain boundaries to store large amounts of excess enthalpy; 3. Phase boundary energy is driven alloying and system constraints in the single-phase metastable important factor; 4.Narrow composite layered structure, in a ball mill further broken into small pieces, the tip having a radius of curvature as small as 1nm, the surface tension of the solution may also be driven atoms.

Therefore, the related researchers thought atomic solid solution has two patterns, one is the crystal lattice get into solvent and resulting in lattice constant changing; and another is nano crystalline solvent provide a large number of grain boundaries, some solute atoms segregate in grain boundary, which makes the atoms in grain boundary lose the diffractive characteristic. In addition, X-ray and electron diffraction showed a single phase under construction, apparently at this time is not the solute and solvent atoms in the neighboring state, namely sub-miscible state.

Coated Cemented Carbide Process II

Based on traditional chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD), some new coating technologies are emerging.

3. Medium Temperature Chemical Vapor Deposition (MTCVD)

Medium temperature chemical vapor deposition (MTCVD) is a kind of new technology based on traditional CVD. It uses organic compounds with C-N atom group as the reaction of raw material, such as methyleneimine, trimethylammonium, to react with hydrogen (H2), nitrogen (N2), titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) at 700-900℃ and form Ti(C,N) different coating layer. The biggest advantage of this method is that it can effectively curb the generation of brittle η phase, which remarkably improves the strength, wear resistance, thermal shock resistance and other comprehensive properties. However, compared with PVD process, the coating internal stress is tensile stress, which greatly increases the possibility of the cracks.

4. Sol-Gel

Sol-Gel is also called α-Al2O3, which uses Aluminum isopropoxide (C9H21AlO4) as precursor (precursor is also known as matrix, which is reactant in atmospheric chemistry) to manufacture α-Al2O3 with complete and compacted structure on the surface of tungsten carbide cutting tools matrix by sol-gel process. In addition, there are no obvious physical defects and weakening phase between coating and interface, cobalt (Co) element part of tungsten carbide diffuse in the coating layer, which improves the adhesive strength between matrix and coating layer further. Some related experiments show that the wear resistance and the lifespan of tungsten carbide cutting tools by sol-gel is much better than the uncoated.

coated cemented carbide

 

 

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