Abstract The present paper deals with the electrical conductivity of a number of carbonaceous powders undergoing a low compaction. It is shown that the contributions to the conductivity of such samples are too numerous and too complex to be solved exactly. Hence, several criteria are proposed in order to quantify the behaviour of moderately compressed powders, and thus derive several useful pa…
Abstract. Metallic and carburized tungsten nanoparticles have been prepared using WCl6 as precursor. The synthesis steps lead from tungsten hexachloride to tungsten carbide following the sequence WCl6 - W0 - a-W2C - WC. These different compounds have been mainly characterized by X-ray diffraction, TEM observations and adsorption measurements. The total reduction of tungsten hexachloride ca…