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• Comparison of numerical results with the experimental measurements shows numerical models reflecting the trend of the increasing thermal conductivity of CB/UHMWPE composites for the CB weight fraction range considered in this paper. More experimental studies are needed to perform quantitative comparison of the material modeling prediction with experimental measurements.

Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge funding by the National Science Foundation NH BioMade EPSCoR award (# 1757371). X-ray microscopy research was supported by the Center of Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P20GM113131) at the National Institutes of Health. Igor Tsukrov also acknowledges the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) through project PI 785/9-1 (# 529594097).

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