İbrahim Mutlay

Consultant | End-to-End Commercialisation | Materials Science | Process Engineering | Sustainable Manufacturing | AI | Sales | Sourcing | 20 years | Industrial Troubleshooting

Türkiye

About

I help build products and markets in different industry segments and regions. My work covers advanced materials, computational sciences, and green chemistry from scientific discovery to commercialisation. I founded tech startups, lived through the rise and fall of many companies, assisted in the launch of countless inventions, and studied deep problems scientifically. Now, I'm using this experience to serve the industry. I am originally a carbon materials scientist who has had the opportunity to work with all solid forms of carbon. Since then I have grown out of it to become a versatile founder & advisor. For two decades, I have been a trusted consultant for startups, SMEs, and corporations, driving breakthroughs across diverse sectors, from advanced materials and sustainability to data science, even space exploration. My expertise has fuelled global innovations in nanocomposites for industrial use cases like textile fibres, plastic machine parts, and elastomers. I am proudly an early inventor in graphene, metal-organic frameworks, shear-thickening fluids, biodegradable plastics, cellulose nanofibres, and many more. I was involved in a great variety of materials science projects, from protective clothing for firefighters, electronic textiles, engineering ceramics, electromagnetic shielding, to industrial-scale fullerene purification. My most recent jobs were about sorbent-based atmospheric water harvesting technologies and redox flow batteries. I have also contributed to emerging frontiers of sustainability, including chemical recycling of polyolefins, end-of-life tyre pulverisation, marine-life conservation, textile circularity, and pyrolysis technologies for tyre recycling. Beyond material science, my work extends to data-driven solutions, particularly artificial intelligence, graph analytics, and statistical design and analysis of experiments. My mission remains the same: to bridge scientific discovery with impactful applications by transforming ideas into tangible progress.

Experience

  • Consultant at APT
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Agentic artificial intelligence platform to build a perfect circular economy. - Software architect and data scientist - Materials scientist for the identification and characterisation of waste streams - Business development and marketing

  • Independent Consultant at Independent Consultancy
    2004 - Present · 22 yrs 7 mos

    Assisted startups and companies in (chronologically)*: ‐ Protective clothing for firefighters ‐ Nanocomposite elastomers for wastewater & water equipment - Biodegradable plastics ‐ Waterborne adhesives - Rigid nanoclay-PP compounds - Metal-organic frameworks for gas storage - Microencapsulated mosquito repellents - Shear-thickening fluid armours ‐ Plasma surface treatment of PP sheets - Photocatalytic self-cleaning coatings ‐ Chemical recycling of polyolefins ‐ Moth-repellent food packaging ‐ Data science and graph analytics ‐ Nanomaterial supply chain audit ‐ Space habitat design ‐ Industrial-scale fullerene purification ‐ Marine‐life conservation ‐ EMI shielding paints - Food delivery fleet management ‐ Ethyl acetate production ‐ GRP composites - Electronic textiles ‐ Engineering ceramics - Assessment of tyre pyrolysis and pyrolytic products - Sorbent-based atmospheric water harvesting - Vanadium redox flow battery electrodes *The list is not exhaustive, showing only selected projects.

  • Principal Consultant at Atlantis Rubber Powders
    Sep 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    New technologies towards the circular economy of end‐of‐life tyres ‐ Process engineering for tyre pulverisation ‐ Rubber & elastomer material design & analysis ‐ Business development and marketing

  • Co-Founder at Denken Ltd.
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2023 · 4 yrs

    Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors: Development of a Novel Biomedia - Invention of a biofunctional carrier media - Thermoplastic polymer engineering for extrusion of biomedia - Design of bioprocesses and bioreactors - Managing entire sales & marketing

  • Founder & Scientific Director at Grafen Chemical Industries Co.
    2004 - 2019 · 15 yrs

    One of the first startups in the World trying to commercialise graphene - Inventor of a new industrial process to manufacture graphene - Pilot-scale production of graphene and graphene-based nanomaterials ‐ Pioneered in all forms of carbon (nano)materials and their applications ‐ First graphene company invested in by the graphite mining industry ‐ Inventor of a universal graphene thermoplastic masterbatch - Synthesis of graphene nanoribbons ‐ Trusted by Lockheed Martin, Bosch, Evonik, Tefal, Lego, Saab, and more.