Izuru Kanoya Chief engineer of Department 1, Research Division 0 (zero) Fundamental Tech. Research Center Honda R&D Co., Ltd. Address: 1-4-1 Chuo, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan E-mail: izuru_kanoya@n.f.rd.honda.co.jp URL: http://world.honda.com/RandD/wako_r/

Expertise : Izuru Kanoya joined Honda R&D Co., Ltd. in 1992. He was one of the members of the Ti alloy research team from 1993 to 1995. In 1996, he changed his research field to focus on environment and energy research. He researched H2 storage tanks using hydrogen storage materials from 1998 to 2010. His current main field of research is analysis of energy storage materials.