Ultrafine‐grained (UFG) refractory metals are promising materials for applications in
aerospace, microelectronics, nuclear energy, and many others under extreme environments …

Microwave processing of materials has emerged as a new method for processing of a
variety of materials in the recent years. Microwaves have been used effectively with …

Research on human evolution reports that our ancestors learned how to cook using fire; it
became a developmental turning point, enlarging their brains. Secondary benefits of fire …

The tungsten–copper alloys were prepared and characterized utilizing pressureless
microwave sintering and hot pressure microwave sintering. The performance of tungsten …

W–Ni alloy parts were produced with selective laser melting (SLM) and the influence of the
Ni content on the microstructure evolution and microhardness was investigated …

Cu–W alloy was prepared by utilizing microwave vacuum infiltration sintering furnace to
assess the influence of different proportions of copper on the structure of Cu–W alloy. The …

W–Cu composites were produced by the technique of copper infiltration into tungsten fiber
preforms (CITFP) under vacuum circumstance. Fibrous structure preforms with various …

Herein, we propose a novel method for fabricating tungsten–copper (W–Cu) composites via
a supergravity technique that mainly consists of three steps: briquetting, sintering, and …

Abstract W and W-La 2 O 3 powders with a range of particle sizes were processed by
furnace sintering, direct resistance sintering, and spark plasma sintering to determine the …

Microwave heating has been widely used because of its advantages of higher heating rate,
energy efficiency and clean utilization. This paper describes the study carried out on the …