In recent years, lead-containing materials are being gradually eliminated due to their high pollution, high toxicity, low strength and low efficiency. High tungsten content materials are ideal substitutes at present. However, for metal materials, its processing difficulty is very high, which limits its application in some fields.

Hard metal is regarded as a kind of composite material, in which WC phase is used as hardness carrier. The brittleness of pure WC related to high hardness can be compensated by metal binder phases (usually Co, or Fe and Ni and their alloys and optional Cr). When the content of binder is high, the mechanical wear resistance is not enough, but when the content of binder is low, the mechanical strength is not enough.

With the rapid development of material surface modification technology, thermal spraying, plasma spraying and other technologies are more and more widely used in the die. After the traditional die is used for a long time, the surface of the die will be damaged, cracks and other problems, maintenance troubles, and need to replace the new die.

Tungsten-containing material is the best high-energy radiation shielding material. It has excellent attenuation and absorption ability to X-ray and radioisotope radiation, which is more than 40% higher than the commonly used lead. It has been widely used in medical diagnosis and treatment, nuclear energy utilization, product safety inspection, industrial flaw detection and other fields.