Fractal kinetics in drug release from finite fractal matrices

@article{Kosmidis2003FractalKI,
  title={Fractal kinetics in drug release from finite fractal matrices},
  author={Kosmas Kosmidis and Panos Argyrakis and Panos Macheras},
  journal={Journal of Chemical Physics},
  year={2003},
  volume={119},
  pages={6373-6377}
}
We have re-examined the random release of particles from fractal polymer matrices using Monte Carlo simulations, a problem originally studied by Bunde et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 83, 5909 (1985)]. A certain population of particles diffuses on a fractal structure, and as particles reach the boundaries of the structure they are removed from the system. We find that the number of particles that escape from the matrix as a function of time can be approximated by a Weibull (stretched exponential… 
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