India, Oct. 29 -- Battery materials and critical minerals company LOHUM has appointed Nobel laureate Professor Sir Konstantin "Kostya" Novoselov as Chief Scientist of a new deep-tech incubation and venture platform for advanced materials. It is one of the most high-profile scientific appointments yet in India's private sector.

The platform targets what Novoselov calls the "valley of death", the gap between early lab research (Technology Readiness Levels 1-4) and products ready for industrial scale (TRL 7-8). LOHUM, which says it is India's largest diversified producer of sustainable critical minerals and advanced materials, will provide capital, infrastructure and oversight. It will commercialise the resulting intellectual property throu...