Target finding in fibrous biological environments

@article{Gomez2020TargetFI,
  title={Target finding in fibrous biological environments},
  author={David Gomez and Eial Teomy and Ayelet Lesman and Yair Shokef},
  journal={New Journal of Physics},
  year={2020},
  volume={22}
}
We use a lattice model to study first-passage time distributions of target finding events through complex environments with elongated fibers distributed with different anisotropies and volume occupation fractions. For isotropic systems and for low densities of aligned fibers, the three-dimensional search is a Poisson process with the first-passage time exponentially distributed with the most probable finding time at zero. At high enough densities of aligned fibers, elongated channels emerge… 
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