A comparative study of the mechanical and tribological properties of UHMWPE composites with synthetic and natural wollastonite

Sakhayana Nikolaevna Danilova, Sofia Borisovna Yarusova, Praskovia Nikolaevna Tarasova, Iuliia Valerievna Kapitonova, Liubov Nikolaevna Ivanova, Pavel Sergeevich Gordienko, Evgeniy Konstantinovich Papynov, Aitalina Alekseevna Okhlopkova, Zi-Feng Zhang, Bing-Feng Liu, Country International Joint Research Center for Persistent Toxic Substances , State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, International Joint Research Center for Arctic Environment and Ecosystem , Polar Academy, Harbin Institute of Technology, Chemical Department, Institute of Natural Sciences, North-Eastern Federal University, Institute of Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Engineering Center , Materials and Technologies for the World Ocean and Arctic, Far Eastern Federal University

Journal of Composite Materials

Published online on July 17, 2026

Abstract

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This study presents a comparative analysis of natural and synthetic wollastonite as reinforcing fillers for ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE). Microstructural characterization showed that synthetic wollastonite (SW) retains a uniform ...