“…This would be in agreement with published papers, in which the alignment and assembly of their particles was inuenced by coulombic interaction between the particles and effect of solvation forces in a collision-recrystallization growth process. [29][30][31] These mechanisms were inuenced by the geometry of their particles, and the local charges associated with them, generally agreeing with the pH sensitivity reported here. However, those studies were modelled with highly-idealized radially symmetric particle geometries representing simplied cases, and so more work would be necessary to verify this is applicable to the nano-structures studied here.…”