Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Diffusion-limited reactions in dynamic heterogeneous media

  • Yann Lanoiselée,
  • Nicolas Moutal,
  • Denis S. Grebenkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06610-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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“Diffusing diffusivity” concept has been recently put forward to account for rapid structural rearrangements in soft matter and biological systems. Here the authors propose a general mathematical framework to compute the distribution of first-passage times in a dynamically heterogeneous medium.