Lab to Market: Commercializing New Matter

Most materials breakthroughs fail not in the lab—but in the journey beyond it. Lab to Market: Commercializing New Matter focuses on the difficult, often misunderstood path from scientific discovery to real-world adoption.
This book takes a commercialization-first perspective. It explains why promising materials stall due to scale-up challenges, manufacturing constraints, cost curves, and qualification hurdles. Rather than celebrating novelty, the book examines what it takes for new matter to survive supply chains, regulations, and customer skepticism.
Readers gain insight into pilot production, process control, reliability testing, and the timing of market entry. The emphasis is on translation: aligning scientific potential with industrial reality, investment expectations, and product needs.
This book explores:
• Why most materials fail to scale despite strong science
• How manufacturing readiness shapes success
• When performance matters less than consistency
• How to bridge scientists, engineers, and markets
• Why timing determines commercialization outcomes
This book is for founders, researchers, investors, and technology transfer leaders working at the edge of innovation. If discovery is only the beginning, this book explains how new matter actually reaches the market.