Advanced Materials 2019 Osaka Japan 22-24 July 2019 Day One

This substantial conference was the eighth in the BIT series with a wide range of topics addressed by a global speaker lineup and audience. Here we report aspects relevant to electric vehicles. Sir David Payne of Southampton University reported on silica in photonics where hollow fiber has some advantages over silica fiber now, but we deploy enough silica fiber every hour to encircle the earth.