01 / Manufacturing
Roll-to-roll coating
Scaled discrete R&D coating into roll-to-roll manufacturing, improving cycle time by 20×.
Advanced materials development · New product integration
Advanced materials
development from concept to scale.
I’m Paul Chen, a seasoned chemical engineer who integrates nanomaterials, thin-film electrodes, and roll-to-roll coating into new products built for commercial scale-up.
PAUL CHEN / CHEMICAL ENGINEER
R&D → SCALE-UP
Concept → scaleintegrated product development
R&D → marketcommercialization strategy
Managed $8M+in CAPEX equipment
8+ yrsproduct & process development
Development at every scale
From formulation
to manufacturing.
02 / Formulation
Electrode slurry systems
Designing reproducible material formulations and process windows for high-performance layers.
03 / Materials
Interface by interface
Understanding thin-film architecture, porous regions, and nanoscale material interfaces.
Selected experience
From new-product
R&D to commercial scale.
Senior R&D Engineer
Ionomr Innovations · Boston, MA
Leads research on next-generation material platforms, using advanced characterization to select nanomaterial layers and thin-film electrode architectures for product integration.
2024 — PresentResearch-led material design
R&D Engineer, Coated Materials
Electric Hydrogen · Natick, MA
Developed characterization and screening workflows that identified scale-up failure modes early, enabling data-backed down-selection of nanomaterial formulations and coating conditions.
2023 — 2024Data-driven material screening
Senior Process Engineer
Electric Hydrogen · Natick, MA
Specified and integrated coating, slurry-homogenization, and thermal-processing equipment to build commercial-scale manufacturing infrastructure for a new production facility.
2022 — 2023Managed $8M+ CAPEX
Process Engineer, Coated Materials
Ballard Power Systems · Burnaby, BC
Co-developed a fully automated pilot plant, defining P&IDs, mass balances, and equipment specifications to establish production-scale coated-material processes.
2019 — 2022$2M+ pilot plant
Manufacturing Specialist, Tissue Adhesives
GluStitch Inc. · Delta, BC
Led cGMP production of medical-grade butyl and octyl cyanoacrylates, operating pilot-scale equipment and completing in-process assays for polymer and monomer batches.
2018 — 2019cGMP pilot production
How I work
Close the gap
to commercial reality.
My work lives at the intersection of advanced materials, nanomaterials, thin-film electrodes, roll-to-roll coating, and operations. I create the bridge from R&D insight to integrated product and commercial manufacturing.
01
Integrate early
Bring R&D, process, quality, supply chain, and customer requirements into the product from the start.
02
Design for scale
Shape thin-film electrodes for performance, durability, repeatability, and scale-up.
03
Characterize with intent
Use SEM, EDS, XRD, rheology, particle size analysis, DMA, TGA, and nanoindentation to connect material structure to process decisions.
Technical range
Built for the
whole arc.
- New product integration
- R&D-to-commercial scale-up
- Nanomaterials & electrodes
- Thin-film & roll-to-roll coating
- Polymer science
- Electrochemistry
- Advanced characterization
Foundations
University of British Columbia
BASc, Chemical Engineering (Co-op) · 2013 — 2018
ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt