Polishing of tungsten carbide by combination of anodizing and silica slurry polishing

• Main Authors: Deng, Hui, Zhang, Xinquan, Liu, Kui, Yamamura, Kazuya, Sato, Hirotaka
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Anodizing; Polishing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85206; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48191
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sintered tungsten carbide (WC) is widely used in precision molding of optical glass lenses, and is considered as a critical mold material for optical industry, due to its high hot hardness and low thermal expansion ratio. However, WC is also a well-known difficult-to-polish material owing to its hig...