**Meet the editor**

Dr. Ganesh S. Kamble completed his PhD degree in 2011 in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. Most of his research focuses on analytical and material chemistry. After completing his PhD degree, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Engineering Chemistry, Kolhapur Institute of Technology's College of Engineer-

ing (Autonomous), Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. He is a life member of the Association of Separation Scientist and Technologists [ASSET], BARC, Mumbai, India. He is a reviewer of peer-reviewed international journals of many publications. He received a "Summer Research Fellow-2013" award from the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore. He also received a "Postdoctoral Research Fellowship" from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), P.R. China. He is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, since November 2017.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Opportunities 3** Ganesh Shamrao Kamble

**Synthesis 25**

**Section 1 Graphene Oxide Synthesis and Applications 1**

Chapter 2 **Plasma Treatment of Graphene Oxide 7** Efim Petrovich Neustroev

Chapter 5 **Graphene Oxide-Based Biosensors 57**

**Applications 75**

Jorge Uruchurtu-Chavarín

Guilherme Luís Cordeiro

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Graphene Oxide: Applications and**

Chapter 3 **Carbocatalytic Activity of Graphene Oxide in Organic**

Biju Majumdar, Daisy Sarma and Tridib K. Sarma

Chapter 4 **Graphene Oxide/Reduced Graphene Oxide Aerogels 39**

**Section 2 Graphene Oxide and Its Energy Conversion Applications 73**

Chapter 6 **Synthesis and Characterization of Reduced Graphene Oxide/**

Chapter 7 **Defect Engineering in Reduced Graphene Oxide toward**

**Advanced Energy Conversion 93**

Gudkov Maskim Vladimirovich and Valery Pavlovich Melnikov

Lingwen Zeng, Shilin Cao, Hang Yin, Jun Xiong and Donghai Lin

**Polyaniline/Au Nanoparticles Hybrid Material for Energy**

Carmina Menchaca-Campos, Elsa Pereyra-Laguna, César García-Pérez, Miriam Flores-Domínguez, Miguel A. García-Sánchez and
