Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been recognised as a promising material in a wide range of applications, from safety to energy-related devices.

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Tungsten (VI) oxide (WO3) reduction by carbon monoxide were examined using temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) and X-ray powder diffractometry (XRD) studies. Results show that WO3 start to reduce at 20% (CO in N2) at temperature 900 °C and the intermediate phases WO2.9 and WO2.83 were observed. The WO3 was reduced and transformed the completely to the WO2.72. As comparison, reduction by using 10% (H2 in N2), WO3 was reduced completely toWO2. The WO3 is a stable oxide because the reduction agent used to promote the reduction was not sufficient enough to reduce to zero metal tungsten.

Metallic molybdenum was synthesized through reduction of molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) by using hydrogen as a reducing agent. The reduction behavior of MoO3 were investigated by using temperature programmed reduction (TPR). The reduced phases were characterized by X-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD). The XRD results indicate that the reduction of MoO3 proceed in two steps reduction (MoO3 → MoO2 → Mo) with formation of intermediate phases of Mo4O11 during first step of reduction. However, the TPR results showed only one broad peak that correspond to all reduction step that was merge into one peak. It seem that, increasing the temperature cause the rapid reduction that correlated with thermodynamic consideration data that show the formation of metallic molybdenum is become feasible by increasing the temperature.

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