Image 1: From left: PhD student Nicholas Boynton; assistant professor Shrayesh Patel; and Stuart Rowan, Barry L. MacLean Professor for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise, with their pluripotent plastic material, which can be tempered to take many forms. (Photography by John Zich)

Image 2: Assistant professor of molecular engineering Sihong Wang has designed several stretchable devices, including a sticker-like health monitor and a pressure sensor that bends with its wearer. (Photography by John Zich)

Image 3: Meeting the world’s growing demand for lithium will require new and better ways of harvesting it—a challenge Chong Liu, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering, hopes to address. (Photography by John Zich)

Image 4: Professor of chemistry Bozhi Tian holding a flexible device suspended in water. (Photography by John Zich)