Table 1.

Key properties of graphene and graphene derivatives

Property	Graphene (GR)	Graphene Oxide (GO)	Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO)
Electrical (carrier mobility)	200,000 cm2 V−1 s−1 (Bolotin et al. 2008)	0.1 ~ 10 cm2 V−1 s−1 (Eda et al. 2011)	372 cm2 V−1 s−1 (Taufique et al. 2017)
Thermal (thermal conductivity)	5 × 103 W m−1 K−1 (Balandin et al. 2008)	18 W m−1 K−1 (Mahanta and Abramson 2012)	1,390 W m−1 K−1 (Kumar et al. 2015a)
Structural (specific surface area)	2,630 m2 g−1 (Stoller et al. 2008)	736.6 m2 g−1 (Montes-Navajas et al. 2013)	758 m2 g−1 (Zhang et al. 2011)
Structural (Young modulus)	1 × 1012 Pa (Lee et al. 2008)	207.6 × 103 Pa (Benchirouf et al. 2016)	6.3 × 109 Pa (Kumar et al. 2015a)
Optical (light adsorption)	2.3 % (Nair et al. 2008)	25 % (Goumri et al. 2016)	20% (Goumri et al. 2016)
Biological (dispersibility in water)	Not dispersible (Liu et al. 2011b)	High (Konkena and Vasudevan 2012)	Low (Konkena and Vasudevan 2012)