The invention provides high-purity nanoscale
tungsten nitride powder and a preparation method thereof. The
tungsten nitride is WN or W2N or a
mixed phase of the WN and the W2N, the
powder purity is larger than or equal to 99.99%, and the
powder particle size is 20-200 nm. The preparation method comprises the following steps that
metal tungsten serves as a
raw material,
sintering is conducted for 3-10 h in a
radio frequency furnace at the temperature of 900-1200 DEG C, then the treated
raw material is pretreated in a box-type furnace, the pretreated powder is sintered for 5-10 h in a
rotary furnace at the temperature of 550-700 DEG C in the NH3 environment, the powder is cooled to the
room temperature, discharged out of the furnace and then subjected to planetary ball milling, crushing and screening in the
inert atmosphere, and the tungsten-based
composite material is obtained. The high-purity
tungsten nitride powder is obtained. The prepared
tungsten nitride powder is stable in structure, high in purity, simple in preparation process, easy to crush, low in operation cost, wide in
process window and suitable for large-scale industrial production. The prepared
tungsten nitride can be widely used in the fields of
catalysis, wear-resistant coatings,
electronics,
optics and the like.