Chao Sun has been awarded the 2017 RIKEN prize for his poster titled ‘Discovering supramolecular adhesives for atomic membranes’ at the 2017 Self-assembly & Supramolecular Chemistry Gordon Research Conference in Switzerland. Six awardees were selected from the 144 posters and 200 individuals who attended from all across the world. This work is in close collaboration with Professor Paul McEuen’s group at Cornell.