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SUBMITTER: Pan Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5436989 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Physical review letters 20160921 13
A stable nanoscale thermal hot spot, with temperature approaching 100 °C, is shown to be sustained by localized Ohmic heating of a focused electric field at the tip of a slender conic nanopore. The self-similar (length-independent) conic geometry allows us to match the singular heat source at the tip to the singular radial heat loss from the slender cone to obtain a self-similar steady temperature profile along the cone and the resulting ionic current conductance enhancement due to viscosity red ...[more]