Mrs. Karen Patino Jaimes

Education           

Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2024.

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Industrial University of Santander, Colombia, 2017. 

Research interests:

Thermal, chemical, and surface characterization of polymers. Reverse engineering and failure analysis.

Industry work experience

Apple Inc., California: Polymer engineer intern, 2024-2025.

Ecopetrol S.A, Colombia: Chemical engineer, laboratory work and Molecular dynamic simulations for evaluating formulations for enhanced oil recovery. 2019-2021.

Industrial University of Santander- Research Center Guatiguara, Colombia: Polymer thermo-mechanical characterizations. 2017-2019.

Extracurricular activities

Vice-president of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) from the CBE department,  Summer 2024-Summer 2025.

MRS communications Peer reviewer, 2022-2024

Publications

1. Patiño Jaimes, K. Y., Caldona, E. B., Kim, E. M., Lambert, J., Winn, E. C., Ribeiro, E. L., Jiang, Y., Ferdousi, S., Hicks, B., Wang, Y., Ivanov, I. N., & Advincula, R. C. (2024). Distinct Mechanism of Anti-Corrosion and Swelling-Adhesion Modeling of Low-Dimensional Nylon-Fluoropolymer Composite Coatings. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 6(6), 3049–3059. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.3c02335

2. Chen, J., Yuan, Y., Ziabari, A. K., Xu, X., Zhang, H., Christakopoulos, P., Bonnesen, P. V., Ivanov, I. N., Ganesh, P., Wang, C., Jaimes, K. P., Yang, G., Kumar, R., Sumpter, B. G., & Advincula, R. (2024). AI for Manufacturing and Healthcare: A chemistry and engineering perspective. ArXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01520

Contact:

Email: kpatino@vols.utk.edu
LinkedIn: Karen Yanith Patino Jaimes | LinkedIn
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6593-3843