Control of Depletion Interactions in Nanoplatelets via Ligand-Shell Engineering to Enhance Colloidal Stability and Nanocomposite Uniformity.
Depletion interactions play a critical role in colloidal stability, yet their behavior in ligand-coated, anisotropic nanocrystals remains poorly understood due to the limitations of hard-particle assumptions at soft interfaces. In two-dimensional (2D) nanoplatelets (NPLs), atomically flat surfaces amplify excluded-volu...