We focus our attention to our previously reported HgTe NPL/ quantum dot (QD) heterostructures where we observed efficient energy transfer from NPL to QD derived from the same material. Other reports in the literature have shown energy transfer to QDs in dot-on-nanoplatelet heterostructures such as CdSe/ZnS, PbSe/CdSe, CdSe/PbSe, and CdSe/Au clusters. We believe that the high efficiency of our HgTe/QD systems arises from the fact that the NPL antenna and QD acceptor are of identical composition but differing confinement. This arrangement only works because the HgTe NPL is in a highly confined regime of only a few monolayers, while the QD confinement is continuously tunable.