“…The functionalization of graphene or graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets confers specific properties to the composites, e.g., their chemical selectiveness, solubility, thermal and electronic conductivity (Bueno et al, 2017;Xiang et al, 2016). Such enhancement allows the employment of functionalized graphenebased materials in several fields, such as chemistry and catalysis (Ye et al, 2018;Rana and Jonnalagadda, 2017), biomedicine (Kenry et al, 2018;Yu et al, 2018;Zeng et al, 2017), electronics (ScidĂ et al, 2018;Gevaerd et al, 2018;Chiu et al, 2017;Zhao et al, 2017), energy (Li and Zhi, 2018;Sadri et al, 2017) and environmental sciences and technologies (Ren et al, 2018;Othman et al, 2018;Khurana et al, 2018). Due to their large specific surface area and rich porous structure, carbonaceous materials usually show high adsorption capacity and have been successfully employed as adsorbents of organic pollutants .…”