Nobel 2026 insights & top-cited papers

Fundamental Research is an open-access, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal which is supervised by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Published bimonthly, it features high-calibre research covering all areas of the natural sciences and high-tech fields. In light of the recent 2026 Nobel Prize announcements, this collection highlights our most highly cited papers from 2024–2025, alongside pioneering studies echoing this year's Nobel themes in Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine.

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Featured Articles:

1. Optically driven intelligent computing with ZnO memristor

Authors: Yang, Jing; Hu, Lingxiang; Shen, Liufeng; Wang, Jingrui; Cheng, Peihong; Lu, Huanming; Zhuge, Fei; Ye, Zhizhen

2. Challenges and prospects for advanced packaging

Authors: Chen, Zhiwen; Zhang, Jiaju; Wang, Shizhao; Wong, Ching-Ping

3. Supply chain resilience: A review from the inventory management perspective

Authors: Guo, Ying; Liu, Fang; Song, Jing-Sheng; Wang, Shuming

4. Role of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing drug discovery

Authors: Rehman, Ashfaq Ur; Li, Mingyu; Wu, Binjian; Ali, Yasir; Rasheed, Salman; Shaheen, Sana; Liu, Xinyi; Luo, Ray; Zhang, Jian

5. A review of GaN RF devices and power amplifiers for 5G communication applications

Authors: Lu, Hao; Zhang, Meng; Yang, Ling; Hou, Bin; Martinez, Rafael Perez; Mi, Minhan; Du, Jiale; Deng, Longge; Wu, Mei; Chowdhury, Srabanti; Ma, Xiaohua; Hao, Yue

6. Engineering exosomes and exosome-like nanovesicles for improving tissue targeting and retention

Authors: Li, Lanya; Wang, Fei; Zhu, Dashuai; Hu, Shiqi; Cheng, Ke; Li, Zhenhua

7. The retinal pigment epithelium: Functions and roles in ocular diseases

Authors: Wang, Shasha; Li, Wanhong; Chen, Min; Cao, Yihai; Lu, Weisi; Li, Xuri

8. Nonreciprocal entanglement in cavity magnomechanics exploiting chiral cavity-magnon coupling

Authors: Fan, Zhiyuan; Zuo, Xuan; Li, Haotian; Li, Jie

9. Supramolecular macrocyclic artificial ion channels for biomedical applications

Authors: Liu, Yamin; Shi, Dao; Li, Bowen; Jin, Yimin; Ling, Daishun; Li, Fangyuan

10. Pnictogen bonding enabled photosynthesis of chiral selenium-containing pyridines from pyridylphosphonium salts

Authors: Liu, Qiang; Zhang, Bei-Bei; Zhang, Chao-Shen; Han, Jia-Nan; Wang, Zhi-Xiang; Chen, Xiang-Yu

11. Heating up the immune battle: Magnetic hyperthermia against cancer

Authors: Jiao, Wangbo; Dai, Lijun; Yan, Bin; Lyu, Yi; Fan, Haiming; Liu, Xiaoli

12. Mannan-decorated STING-activating vaccine carrier for spatial coordinative stimulating antigen-specific immune responses

Authors: Liu, Liping; Zhao, Jiayu; Huang, Zichao; Xu, Yudi; Chen, Hongyu; Qiao, Ruirui; Song, Wantong; Tang, Zhaohui; Davis, Thomas P.; Chen, Xuesi

13. Lenalidomide promotes melarsoprol-activated cGAS-STING-mediated immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma via attenuating TNF-a activity

Authors: Yu, Zhuo; Zou, Yifang; Han, Shulan; Sun, Dandan; Wang, Lingzhi; Yang, Leilei; Li, Yutong; Zhang, Xuemei; Guo, Jianfeng

14. The interaction network between group 3 innate lymphoid cells and other cells

Authors: Hu, Yi-tong; Liu, Xing-zi; Zhang, Yue-miao; Guo, Xiaohuan

15. High-capacity device-independent quantum secure direct communication based on hyper-encoding

Authors: Zeng, Hui; Du, Ming-Ming; Zhong, Wei; Zhou, Lan; Sheng, Yu-Bo

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