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Ammonium Metatungstate Preparing Violet Tungsten Oxide Whisker

Published on 24 November 2016

Ammonium metatungstate (AMT) is an important compound in tungsten metallurgy industry, an important raw material for preparing tungsten oxide, such as tungsten trioxide (YTO, WO₃), violet tungsten oxide (VTO, WO_2.72 or W₁₈O₄₉). Violet tungsten oxide whisker is the micro-nano-short fibers which are generated by the high purity violet tungsten oxide, with the mechanical strength equal to the strength of adjacent atoms between the intensity. The highly oriented structure of W₁₈O₄₉whisker has not only making itself of high strength, modulus and elongation, but also of the properties of electrical, optical, magnetism, dielectricity, conductivity and superconductivity.

It is pointed out that a process for producing violet tungsten oxide whiskers by coaxial electrostatic spinning method with ammonium metatungstate as a raw material is as follows:

1. Mix 2ml saturated ammonium metatungstate solution and 12% PVA solution in a certain proportion, to prepare spinning solution;

2. Inject the best electrospinning solution into 10ml syringe, and install it in the syringe pump to carry out a single tube electrospinning experiment. In the spinning process, solvent will volatilize partly in the air and form ammonium metatungstate/PVA composite fiber;

3. Calcine the obtained ammonium metatungstate / PVA composite fiber in the air to remove the solvent and the matrix PVA, and the ammonium metatungstate is decomposed by heating to obtain WO₃ one-dimensional nanofibers at the same time;

4. The WO₃ one-dimensional nanofibers is transformed to some specific crystal type and appearance by a certain heat treatment process, thereby to get W₁₈O₄₉ whisker.

The results showed that 800 ℃ is the optimum temperature for the formation of violet tungsten oxide whisker, and the W₁₈O₄₉ whisker nanorods are different in length. In addition, from the transmission electron microscopy (TEM), SEM, XRD and SAED patterns, we can observe that W₁₈O₄₉ whiskers are growing independently of each other with the smooth surface, with nano-level diameter and micron-length, large aspect ratio, and the is diameter mainly among 170nm-250nm, the length is mainly between 2-3μm, long diameter ratio mainly among 10-17, thus to be with some unique properties.

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Ammonium Metatungstate Preparation -- Nitric Acid Neutralization Method

Category: Ammonium Metatungstate

Published on 22 November 2016

Ammonium metatungstate (AMT) is an important intermediate compound during the tungsten wet smelting process, white or yellowish crystals, which has the highest solubility in all tungsten compounds (303g/100mL under 20°C in water). There are many preparation methods of ammonium metatungstate, such as thermal decomposition, tungsten acid, electrodialysis, solvent extraction, ion exchange method, while the thermal decomposition method based on the raw material of APT is the main process for manufacturing AMT in industrial currently.

Being one class of preparation method, acid neutralization method has been focused and widely used in the industry because of its simple process and equipment. Some studies have followed on the nitric acid neutralization method, taken ammonium paratungstate (APT) as raw material to convert and generate AMT in an environment of nitric acid, which is heating a certain amount of deionized water, and slowly adding APT and dilute nitric acid solution with the ratio of 1:20 with stirring, then controlling the transformation temperature within limits to convert APT to AMT in the liquid phase and generate AMT solution, and finally get ammonium metatungstate crystal after the steps of ageing, preconcentration, concentration, crystallization, solid-liquid separation and drying. Wherein, the reaction equations of APT converts to AMT by nitric acid neutralization method is like:

(NH₄)₁₀W₁₂O₄₁.xH₂0+4HNO₃= (NH₄)₆H₂W₁₂O₄₀.yH₂0+4NH₄NO₃+H₂O

The nitric acid in this method can be replaced by organic acids, such as formic acid, acetic acid, citric acid, lactic acid, with the advantages of moderate acidity and easy to operate; but, the expansive price of organic acids makes them hardly to be used in the mass production of AMT in industrial. However, although the nitric acid being used in the nitric acid neutralization method has the benefits of easy to get and low cost; but, because nitric acid has a strong acidity which will make the generation of tungstic acid colloid becoming easily, and introduces impurity of nitrate into AMT, thereby to decrease the converting rate and property of AMT.

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2016.11.22-Tungsten Carbide Tiles Price

Category: Tungsten Carbide Price

Published on 22 November 2016

As reported by Chinatungsten Online, the current price of YG11C tungsten carbide tiles for 40mmx15mmx4mm is $1.65 per piece EXW Xiamen, China on NOV.22, 2016.

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2016.11.22-Tungsten Copper Rod Price

Category: Tungsten Copper Price

Published on 22 November 2016

As reported by Chinatungsten Online, the current price of 80%W20%Cu tungsten copper rod of Ø16mmx200mm is $33.20 per piece EXW Xiamen, China on NOV.22, 2016.

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2016.11.21-Tungsten Carbide Copper Rod Price

Category: Tungsten Copper Price

Published on 21 November 2016

As reported by Chinatungsten Online, the current price of 70%WC30%Cu tungsten carbide copper rod of Ø13mmx250mm is $45.50 per piece EXW Xiamen, China on NOV.21, 2016.

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2016.11.21-Tungsten Carbide Ball Price

Category: Tungsten Carbide Price

Published on 21 November 2016

As reported by Chinatungsten Online, the current price tungsten carbide ball of YG8 for Ø6.0mm of is $0.24 per piece EXW Xiamen, China on NOV.21, 2016.

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Ammonium Metatungstate and Rewriting Paper

Category: Ammonium Metatungstate

Published on 18 November 2016

Ask: What is the relationship between ammonium metatungstate (AMT) and rewriting paper?

Answer: Nothing direct.

Ask: Then, why you put both of them together?

Answer: Because ammonium metatungstate is the raw material for preparing tungsten dioxide (WO₂), while tungsten dioxide is one of the two material of rewriting paper.

Paper wasting is one of the biggest problems we meet in environment protection currently, we know that, the raw materials of papermaking are plant fiber (such as woods, bamboo, grass), mineral fiber (asbestos, glass fiber, etc), other fiber (nylon, metal wire, etc.), and the polymer material which get from oil cracking. At present, papers used for writing, painting and packing are still manufacturing from plant fiber, which will bring huge threat to environment protection.

Recently, one research team came up with an interesting solution – the rewriting paper, which is using two materials of tungsten dioxide (WO₂) and polyvinyl pyrrolidone; this rewriting paper not only can save water, energy, space, but also can reduce the emissions of greenhouse gas; in addition, this kind of rewriting paper has non-toxic effect, and has been proved to be used for the field of medicine and food. The rewriting paper is through the appearing and fading of blue to realize function of rewriting, if this material is exposed to UV light for more than 30 seconds, the color will automatically become dark blue; while, the blue will fade when exposed in the outdoor for a or two days, or heated; moreover, the addition of polyvinyl pyrrolidone can extend the duration of blue to 10 days, and increase circulation writing to 40 times.

Ammonium metatungstate is a kind of white or yellowish powder with water solubility, and the solubility can reach to 300g/100ml in the water under 20°C, an important tungsten compound in tungsten metallurgy industry. Ammonium metatungstate is mainly used for preparing tungsten oxide, such as tungsten trioxide (WO₃), tungsten dioxide (WO₂), blue tungsten oxide (WO_2.9) and violet tungsten oxide (WO_2.72), tungsten powder, tungsten based carbide; furthermore, AMT is also used in many kinds of petroleum and chemical catalysts, the main raw material of W-based catalyst for oil refineries.

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Ammonium Metatungstate Preparing WO3-Fe2O3/TiO2 Composite Photocatalyst

Category: Ammonium Metatungstate

Published on 17 November 2016

WO₃-Fe₂O₃/TiO₂ composite photocatalyst is an inorganic material which can be used in the degradation of pollutants in the environment, the new type of photocatalyst. Traditional photocatalyst is mainly based on titanium dioxide (TiO₂), which has the advantages of chemical stability, high catalytic activity, strong oxidizing power, non-toxic, low cost ect.; however, because the spectral response range of titanium dioxide is really narrow, and thus it can only utilize the ultraviolet light (wavelength less than 387nm), which has become the bottleneck and limited the application range of titanium dioxide. Therefore, the development of photocatalyst which has high activity and can utilize the visible light is of very large economic and practical value.

Research has found that, doping metal ion is an effective way to make TiO₂ showing photocatalytic activity under visible light. Generally believed that the metal ions into the TiO₂ lattice can be introduced impurity levels in the forbidden band, the band gap is reduced, so that the valence band electrons after receiving a large optical excitation wavelength, the first transition to impurity energy level, by once again absorb the energy, the transition from the impurity level to the conduction band, thereby reducing the energy required by stimulated to achieve so that the spectral response range of TiO₂ photocatalytic move to the visible region.

An invention has pointed out a method to prepare WO₃-Fe₂O₃/TiO₂ composite photocatalyst, which bases on the tungsten source of ammonium metatungstate (AMT), with the steps as following:

1. Add water into the ammonium metatungstate solution according to the weight ratio of WO₃: water (1：6〜7);

2. And then add ferric nitrate [Fe(NO₃)₃•9H₂O] according to the weight ration of WO₃: ferric nitrate (5〜7:1 ) to dissolve and get the impregnation liquid;

3. Add TiO₂ powder, which is anatase type with BET specific surface area of 80〜150m²/g, according to the weight ration of WO₃: TiO₂ (1：6〜7), then dry the mixture at 100°C for 4~6 hours;

4. Calcine the mixture at 580°C〜780°C for 5 hours to finally get WO₃-Fe₂O₃/TiO₂ composite photocatalyst.

Compared with the composite materials which dose not dope with metal ions, WO₃-Fe₂O₃/TiO₂ composite photocatalyst is showing a better photocatalytic ability; at the same time, the doping of WO₃ and Fe₂O₃ with specific lattice structure is actually modifying the TiO₂ particle, thus to extended spectral response range of TiO₂, and make it can be widely applied in the fields of environmental purification.

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Ammonium Metatungstate Price on Nov.17th, 2016

Category: Ammonium Metatungstate

Published on 17 November 2016

Ammonium metatungstate price with purity over 91.40% from Chinatungsten Online is 35.50 USD/KG, by Chinatungsten FOB Xiamen, Nov.17^th, 2016.

AMT image

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Tungstic Acid Price on Nov.17th, 2016

Category: Tungsten Oxide/Trioxide Price

Published on 17 November 2016

Tungstic acid price with purity over 91.00% from Chinatungsten Online is 34.00 USD/KG, by Chinatungsten FOB Xiamen, Nov.17^th, 2016.

yellow tungsten oxide photo

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