A research team successfully synthesized tungsten carbide (WC) and tungsten boride ... achieving a high densification of 97.8% and a hardness of 24 GPa, even without using any binder.

A research team, led by Prof. HUANG Zhulin at the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully synthesized tungsten ...

Because of the brittle nature of tungsten carbide and the hardness of the matrix, I am forever breaking the tip off my needle. If a genie were to appear before me one day, I would not wish for a ...

But such is the case for tungsten carbide inserts, the flecks of material that form the business end of most of the tools used to shape metal. And thanks to one of the biggest suppliers of inserts ...