Undulation induced tuning of electron acceptance by edge-oxidized graphene oxide.

Edge-oxidized graphene oxide (EOGO) nanosheets are good acceptors of electrons. We have employed a suitably designed pyrene-tailed fluorescent probe to establish that the electron acceptability of EOGO can be tuned by undulation of the GO sheet. Comparison between EOGO and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) on electron acceptance from the probe molecule shows that the efficiency of π-π stacking between pyrene and the graphene sheet plays the key role.