Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus Award 2017 is presented to Prof. Zhen Zhou (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China) in recognition of the outstanding research work done.

The Rudolph A. Marcus Award was established to commemorate Professor Marcus, who was awarded the 1992 Nobel chemistry award. “Science Advances Today” gives the award to the best chemical science thesis every year.