The plenary session is one of the highlighted events of the meeting, allowing participants from every symposia to come together and recognize some of the greatest minds in the field.

ECS President Yue Kuo will wrap up the first full day of AiMES 2018 by welcoming the ECS and SMEQ meeting attendees and introducing the highly anticipated lecturer, Luis A. Godinez from the Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico en Electroquimicaand. His talk is "Electro- and Photo-Electro-Chemical Generation of the Fenton Reagent. Some Approaches for the Development of Electrochemical Based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment."

The agenda also includes:

• Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award, presented Michael Arnold, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Edward Goodrich Acheson Award, presented to Tetsuya Osaka, Waseda University
• the 2018 class of Fellows of The Electrochemical Society