India, Nov. 14 -- Kanchan Barve-Mone, co-founder of Materials Magica, first discovered the magic of materials during her postdoctoral studies in polymer science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune. Alongside her professor and co-founder, Satishchandra Ogale, she explored how to translate promising laboratory research into practical applications.

Says she, "We kept coming back to the question-how could we turn materials with promising properties in the lab into products people could actually use? "The how-to became apparent in 2021, when the Covid-19 pandemic drew attention to the air people breathed indoors. They found a problem to work on.

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"We began thinking about how we could c...