diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7a58c2fa..34e1d6dc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## Unreleased
 
 * Fix `ktable` constructor to use supplied `store-name` 
+* Fix inability to materialize without supplying a topic name
 
 ## [0.7.3] - [2020-04-08]
 
diff --git a/src/jackdaw/streams/interop.clj b/src/jackdaw/streams/interop.clj
index 6f4254bc..362636fc 100644
--- a/src/jackdaw/streams/interop.clj
+++ b/src/jackdaw/streams/interop.clj
@@ -40,9 +40,12 @@
   (Serialized/with key-serde value-serde))
 
 (defn topic->materialized [{:keys [topic-name key-serde value-serde]}]
-  (cond-> (Materialized/as ^String topic-name)
-    key-serde (.withKeySerde key-serde)
-    value-serde (.withValueSerde value-serde)))
+  (if topic-name
+    (cond-> (Materialized/as ^String topic-name)
+            key-serde (.withKeySerde key-serde)
+            value-serde (.withValueSerde value-serde))
+    (Materialized/with key-serde
+                       value-serde)))
 
 (defn suppress-config->suppressed
   [{:keys [max-records max-bytes until-time-limit-ms]}]
diff --git a/test/jackdaw/streams/interop_test.clj b/test/jackdaw/streams/interop_test.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c8c5b83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/jackdaw/streams/interop_test.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+(ns jackdaw.streams.interop-test
+  (:require
+    [clojure.test :refer :all]
+    [jackdaw.streams.interop :as interop])
+  (:import
+    (org.apache.kafka.common.serialization
+      Serdes)))
+
+(deftest topic->materialized-test
+  (testing "materialized with serde only doesn't smoke"
+    (is (interop/topic->materialized {:key-serde (Serdes/String)
+                                      :value-serde (Serdes/String)})))
+  (testing "materialized with topic name and serde doesn't smoke"
+    (is (interop/topic->materialized {:key-serde (Serdes/String)
+                                      :value-serde (Serdes/String)}))))
+