Thermal spraying technology can rapidly prepare a protective coating on the surface of the workpiece, giving the workpiece surface different properties such as wear resistance, corrosion resistance, wear reduction, sealing and so on. WC-based cermets with high hardness and toughness are widely used in aerospace, metallurgy, petrochemical, mechanical and other industries.

Tungsten trioxide nanomaterials are often used to fabricate high-performance nanodevices because of their unique properties. One-dimensional nanomaterials have become a research hotspot of nanomaterials. At present, the preparation methods of WO₃ mainly include V-L-S method, L-L-S method, template method and so on. Template method has the advantages of low cost, suitable for large area ordered array units, and has become the mainstream.

Tungsten resources are abundant and varied in China. At present, wolframite is decomposed by alkali and scheelite is decomposed by hydrochloric acid or boiled by soda. For quite a long time, experts at home and abroad generally believed that it was impossible to decompose scheelite by alkali (NaOH) in industry. Until Professor Li Honggui of Central South University put forward the hot-ball milling alkali decomposition process, which broke the convention.

Tungsten is a refractory metal with the highest melting point and lowest vapor pressure in all metals. It has been widely used in aerospace, power electronics and metallurgical industry. Recently, tungsten-based porous ceramics have attracted more and more attention from researchers at home and abroad.