Tungsten (W) is a durable, strong metal used to make rings and other jewelry. The word tungsten originates from the Swedish word meaning heavy stone. It is a steel-gray material with the highest strength of any known metal, and it’s only one point lower than diamond on the Mohrs Hardness Scale.

Tungsten alloy has the advantages of high density, machinability, good corrosion resistance, and high radiation absorption capacity, and high strength. It is widely used in the fields of aerospace and automotive industries and radiation shielding.

A study at the University of Queensland has shown that tungsten and molybdenum (Mo) can improve the electrochemical properties of the cathode materials in Li batteries. As the driving range of electric vehicles increases, more nickel is needed to increase energy density, but this also reduces cycle stability. Tungsten and Mo improve stability by enhancing structural stability and resistance of the cathode material surface layer to electrode/electrolyte side reactions.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Queensland has shown that the specific properties of metallic materials such as tungsten (W) and molybdenum (Mo) could improve the electrochemical properties, especially the cycle stability, of cathode materials in Li batteries. Ni–Co–Mn ternary oxide materials (NCMs) and Ni–Co–Al materials (NCAs) are widely used as cathodes in lithium ions for electric vehicles. Increasing the driving range of electric vehicles necessitates a raise of the nickel content to increase the energy density, which, however, degrades the cycle stability.

Among the transition metal oxides, tungsten trioxide (WO3) has attracted much attention and has been widely studied due to its many interesting structures and defect characteristics. The numerous applications of WO3 optical and electronic devices include electrochromic (EC) smart windows, flat panel displays, tunable EC photonic crystals, and gas sensors. However, its higher band gap energy (2.6-3.6 eV) limits its application. Therefore, the low frequency near infrared light (NIR) cannot be blocked.

Electrochromism (EC) is a phenomenon that induces a reversible optical change (coloration/bleaching) in a material by applying a small electric field. Tungsten oxide (WO3) is the most widely studied electrochromic material due to its outstanding electrochromic (EC) properties. Materials that can continuously and reversibly change color under reversible electrochemical processes are called electrochromic materials, which have been widely used to fabricate light modulation devices. Among these devices, anti-glare car mirrors have been commercialized, and smart windows are currently driving intensive development.

Tungsten pins, also named tungsten needles or tungsten electrodes, are a typical tungsten product with purity of 99.95%. It has a silver-white appearance, a slender structure, a length of 20mm-1000mm, and a diameter of 0.3mm-10mm. Usually, the product is customized. 

A collimator, a device used to transform the diverging light or other radiation from a point light source into a parallel beam. Special measurements in spectroscopy and in geometric and physical optics require this kind of collimation.

Aoyama Aoyama, a visiting professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, recently released the results of his research at an international seminar hosted by Fukushima University. Said that the radioactive substance cesium 137 that entered the ocean in the 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident arrived on the west coast of the United States and traveled northward, passing by the Bering Sea, the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean, returns to the northeastern coast of Japan in about 7 to 8 years.

Cesium tungsten bronze is widely used in near-infrared shielding materials due to its excellent absorption performance of infrared and ultraviolet rays, and is used as heat insulation additives for automotive glass, architectural glass, and agricultural greenhouse films.