Pengzhan Sun is an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and automation in 2012 and his PhD in materials science and engineering in 2016, both from Tsinghua University. From 2016 to 2022, he worked as a research associate with Professor Sir Andre Geim at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the National Graphene Institute at University of Manchester. His research interests include the fundamental understanding of molecular transport under confinement and the synthesis and processing of two-dimensional crystal building blocks and their rationally designed assemblies for emerging technologies in environment, energy, informatics and other fields.