With the development of new-energy car industry, cobalt and lithium have become the popular rare metal resources in the current market. According to Japanese media’s reports, a series of vehicle industry policy launched by China has become the turning point of intensifying the global resources scramble. The demand for rare metal will increase rapidly in the future.  

Recently, the researchers in the Argonne National Laboratory have accidentally discovered that the reaction between molybdenum disulfide and nano-diamonds can produce onion-like dry lubricant which can last long.

Recently, a team of international scientists reported a new type of superhard material that can be used in drilling, machine manufacturing and other fields. It is a kind of compound based on tungsten boride. After being Research has confirmed that the newly-developed tungsten boride is superior to the WC-Co hard alloy composite materials and synthetic diamond materials which are currently widely used.

Recently, Professor Li Guowu from Crystal Structure Laboratory in China University of Geosciences has discovered a new mineral with tungsten bronze type structure--- wumuite. The new discovery was officially approved by IMA-CNMNC (Approval No. IMA2017-067a). This is the first natural mineral with tungsten bronze type structure found in the world.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from ChinaTungsten Online

China ammonium paratungstate (APT) and ferro-tungsten prices continued their downward trend earlier in this week amid quiet trading volumes in Chinese market and lackluster demand from the overseas market. 

Rare earth market quotation in China: rare earth price remains unchanged from the previous trading day. Sellers appear unwilling to sell with the support of production costs while downstream customers still remain low buying interest in off-peak season. Under unclear outlook, insiders have different opinions on price trend in September. 

The latest prices of molybdenum concentrate, sodium molybdate, ammonium molybdate and molybdenum bar go up on Tuesday August 28. Under the environmental inspection, large mines stop production to undergo repair, offsetting some disadvantages of weak demand. 

Photocatalysts are chemical substances which do not change itself under the irradiation of light and can be used as a catalyst. 

Photocatalytic principle: After the photocatalyst is irradiated by light, the valence band electron on the semiconductor surface absorbs the light and is excited to the conduction band. 

Tungsten diselenide nanosheet is a kind of two-dimensional graphene-like material. Its main structure is composed of two layers of selenium atoms connected with a layer of tungsten atoms in the middle. This material is a hot research topic in the scientific community. 

With the rapid development of graphene, people get interested in two-dimensional materials. Among these two-dimensional materials, transition metal dihalide has attracted extensive attraction because the thin layer structure of its atom owns the properties of electricity, optics, plasma, electrochemistry and electrocatalysis.