Tungsten carbide (WC) has excellent properties of high hardness, high strength, high rigidity, good wear resistance, and thermal conductivity. It has wide application files of tools in the metalworking, drilling, and mining industries under severe conditions of high-pressure, high-temperature, and corrosive environment. These mechanical properties is affected by the composition and microstructural parameters including the grain size. It is known that reduction of WC gives a significant improvement in the mechanical properties of the consolidated compacts. So, an efficient and useful production method of nanoscale WC powder is necessary.

Non-magnetic tungsten carbide (WC) is a kind of hard alloy material with no magnetism or weak magnetism.  It has excellent properties of high hardness, high T.R.S. and high corrosion resistance.  Its applications include the production of standard parts, cold heading, cold punch, and cold mold. It can also be used in non-magnetic wear parts.

The metastable phases of tungsten oxides or oxide bronzes, such as the hexagonal and the pyrochlore-types AxWO₃, have caught much attention because of their one- or three-dimensional opened-tunneling structures. They have been used in the fields of electrochromic devices, humidity and gas sensors and secondary battery.

Tungsten carbide-cobalt (WC–Co) is an alloy of hard, ceramic tungsten carbide and the ductile cobalt, often known as cemented carbide. Some of the noteworthy properties of this alloy are strength, hardness, high electrical and thermal conductivity and high malleability and ductility.