Eco-Friendly Synthesis and Characterization of Reduced Graphene Oxide

Graphene is a single sheet of sp(2) bonded carbon having a two-dimensional (2D) layer. It has remarkable electronic, mechanical and thermal properties. In this paper, the graphene oxide (GO) was reduced by reducing chemicals such as ascorbic acid and hydrazine and then characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. TEM results of the chemically reduced graphene were showed that the structure consists of a mixture of single and few layers of reduced graphene oxide (rGO).