He went on to develop motifs robust enough to be used as the components of both crystalline lattices and of
nanomechanical devices.
A range of significant advances soon followed, from 2D DNA arrays to DNA - based
nanomechanical devices.
Armed with a powerful set of tools at EPFL's Center of MicroNanoTechnology, researchers in Kippenberg's lab set about engineering
nanomechanical devices with deliberately enhanced stress and dissipation dilution.
He designed the first DNA - based
nanomechanical device, as well as robust individually - addressable 2 - and 3 - state nanomechanical devices.