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Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.112, No.17, 7735-7740, 2000
Diffusion-limited coalescence and annihilation in random media
We study the kinetics of diffusion-limited coalescence, A+A --> A, and annihilation, A+A --> 0, in random media consisting of disconnected domains of reaction. Examples include exciton fusion and annihilation in porous matrices and along polymer chains. We begin with an exact analysis of A+A --> A in a finite segment. This result is applied to coalescence in a random distribution of segment lengths, and the implications for coalescence and annihilation in percolation clusters and other confined geometries are then derived by means of scaling techniques.