29 August 2025

An Accidental Venture of RM2 Million!

Dr. Mohd Azri Ab Rani, 2019 Merdeka Award Grant Recipient


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Dr. Mohd Azri Ab Rani, an award-winning chemist is driven by one mission—turning science into solutions. 

While his early work was on sustainable, affordable energy innovations that challenge the dominance of lithium in sodium-ion “salt” batteries, his discoveries have brought lucrative earnings!

Beyond the lab, and drawing from his PhD research, he has launched Dr Azri’s Perfume—a GMP-certified fragrance brand formulated with novel fixatives originally developed for batteries. 

Long-lasting and locally made, his creation blends chemistry and lifestyle into one fragrant future. 

Dr Azri received the Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment in (2019) to Oxford University, (UK). Read more about his Grant experience here: 


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Something that is worth doing is often tough, but the rewards can be big.

Dr Azri is currently a senior lecturer in the Applied Sciences Faculty at UiTM Shah Alam and the founder of Dr Azri's Perfume





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