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He developed eneloop, and the laboratory\u0026#39;s current work stores and transports hydrogen as a liquid handled at room temperature and pressure. The article says the lab demonstrated an integrated make, store, transport and use process, and describes that demonstration as a world first.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAzuki\u0026#39;s stated aim in adapting the research is to make specialized work feel familiar to readers. The tie-up announcement comes from Sankaku Kei Inc., which names Azuki as its representative.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Kono greeted Yashiro Azuki with a traffic cone at the lab. The University of Tokyo manga runs on that fandom, and a researcher's enthusiasm is a strange but workable translation layer for hydrogen storage.","twitterPost":"Kono met Yashiro Azuki at the lab with a traffic cone. The University of Tokyo manga is built on a fan's enthusiasm, not a communications brief.","threadsPost":"Kono welcomed Yashiro Azuki to the lab with a traffic cone, which tells you where the University of Tokyo manga came from. The research needed a plain-language entry point, and the professor's own fandom supplied the tone. Hydrogen storage gets a narrator who already likes the person explaining it.","newsletterBlurb":"Yashiro Azuki, representative of Sankaku Kei Inc., has produced and published a manga about portable hydrogen energy with the University of Tokyo Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology's Kono Laboratory. The lab's professor, who developed eneloop, greeted Azuki with a traffic cone because he is a fan. 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