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A new semi-analytical solution to the advection-dispersion-reaction equation for modelling solute transport in layered porous media is derived using the Laplace transform. Our solution approach involves introducing unknown functions…

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The analysis and design of advection-diffusion based molecular communication (MC) systems in cylindrical environments is of particular interest for applications such as micro-fluidics and targeted drug delivery in blood vessels. Therefore,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Maximilian Schäfer , Wayan Wicke , Lukas Brand , Rudolf Rabenstein , Robert Schober

In this paper we develop a hybrid version of the encounter-based approach to diffusion-mediated absorption at a reactive surface, which takes into account stochastic switching of a diffusing particle's conformational state. For simplicity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-21 Paul C. Bressloff

Charge transfer is a fundamental process that underlies a multitude of phenomena in chemistry and biology. Recent advances in observing and manipulating charge and heat transport at the nanoscale, and recently developed techniques for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Galen T. Craven , Abraham Nitzan

Theoretically, the presence of a metallic nanoparticle enhances the intermolecular energy transfer. We calculate this enhancement factor with a modal approach pertaining analytical results in the case of a nanosphere. We calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Titus Sandu , Catalin Tibeica , Oana Nedelcu , Mihai Gologanu

We investigate charge transfer in prototypical molecular donor-acceptor compounds using hybrid density functional theory (DFT) and the GW approximation at the perturbative level (G0W0) and at full self-consistency (sc-GW). For the systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-23 Fabio Caruso , Viktor Atalla , Xinguo Ren , Angel Rubio , Matthias Scheffler , Patrick Rinke

Diffusional dynamics of the donor-acceptor distance in electron-transfer reactions are responsible for the appearance of a new time scale of diffusion over the distance of falloff of electronic tunneling. The distance dynamics compete with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Dmitry V. Matyushov

Molecular conduction operating in dielectric solvent environments are often described using kinetic rates based on Marcus theory of electron transfer at a molecule-metal electrode interface. However, the successive nature of charge transfer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Henning Kirchberg , Michael Thorwart , Abraham Nitzan

Understanding electron correlation requires solving inseparable Schrodinger equation. In general, inseparable Schr\"odinger equations cannot be solved analytically. So their solutions are obtained numerically. In this paper we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Shivani Verma , Aniruddha Chakraborty

Chemical reactions involve the movement of charges, and this work presents a mathematical model for describing chemical reactions in electrolytes. The model is developed using an energy variational method that aligns with classical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Shixin Xu , Robert Eisenberg , Zilong Song , Huaxiong Huang

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the mechanism and kinetics of hydrated electron diffusion. The electron center of mass is found to exhibit Brownian-type behavior with a diffusion coefficient considerably greater than that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Kafui A. Tay , François-Xavier Coudert , Anne Boutin

Exploiting the recently derived quantum Smoluchowski equation the classical Ivanchenko Zil'berman theory for overdamped diffusive phase motion of low capacitance Josephson junctions is extended to the low temperature quantum domain where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Ankerhold

A simple analytical method for solving intra-molecular reactions of polymer chain in dilute solution is formulated. The physical problem of looping can be modeled mathematically with the use of a Smoluchowski-like equation with a Dirac…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Moumita Ganguly , Aniruddha Chakraborty

We propose a new method for finding the exact analytical solution in Laplace domain for the problem where the probability density of a random walker in a piece-wise linear potential in presence of a rectangular sink of arbitrary width and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-17 Proma Mondal , Aniruddha Chakraborty

The reaction mechanism of deep-inelastic multinucleon transfer processes in the $^{16}$O+$^{27}$Al reaction at an incident $^{16}$O energy ($E_{\rm lab}=134$ MeV) substantially above the Coulomb barrier has been studied both experimentally…

The derivation of suitable analytical models is an important step for the design and analysis of molecular communication systems. However, many existing models have limited applicability in practical scenarios due to various simplifications…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Maximilian Schäfer , Wayan Wicke , Werner Haselmayr , Rudolf Rabenstein , Robert Schober

In this paper we present a mathematical model for the electrochemical deposition aimed at the production of inverse opals. The real system consists of an arrangement of sub micrometer spheres, through which the species in an electrolytic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 P. C. T. D'Ajello , L. Lauck , G. L. Nunes

The response of a model micro-electrochemical system to a time-dependent applied voltage is analyzed. The article begins with a fresh historical review including electrochemistry, colloidal science, and microfluidics. The model problem…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Z. Bazant , Katsuyo Thornton , Armand Ajdari

A non-perturbative approach to the solution of the time-dependent, two-center Dirac equation is presented with a special emphasis on the proper treatment of the potential of the nuclei. In order to account for the full multipole expansion…

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