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University of Miami researcher secures top national award for early-career scientists

A rendered visualization for the research project. Credit to Ryan Allen from Second Bay Studios.A University of Miami physicist has received one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for early-career scientists, the NSF CAREER Award, positioning his research at the forefront of next-generation quantum technologies.

Kun Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Physics in the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award—an honor that supports rising faculty leaders who integrate innovative research with impactful education. The five-year grant, which runs from 2026 to 2031 and provides approximately $700,000 in funding, will support Wang’s long-term research vision in molecular quantum systems.

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Unique molecule may lead to smaller, more efficient computers

From left: Shen, Wang and Shiri with their molecule and a chemical model of it. Photos by Joshua Prezant/University of Miami.A team of physicists from the University of Miami, with two collaborators, developed a new type of molecule that could offer a groundbreaking material for computer chips.

Today, most of us carry a fairly powerful computer in our hand—a smartphone.

But computers weren’t always so portable. Since the 1980s, they have become smaller, lighter, and better equipped to store and process vast troves of data.

Yet the silicon chips that power computers can only get so small.

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