Visible evidence to magnetism of graphene oxide

Abstract

Graphene oxide continues to amaze scientific community for multiple potentials in a broad span of applications such as catalysts, adsorbents, oxidants, etc., determined by constant unveiling of its fantastic natures. Of them, magnetism is not ultimately identified and directly observed by naked eyes. Herein, we report graphene oxide directionally migrated and deposited together simply under external magnetic field from common Nd-Fe-B magnet, whereas the ferromagnetism of graphene oxide did not exhibit that strong as iron. Therefore, we illustrated this interesting pathway to keep close to such 2D carbon materials and potentially promoted magnetic-oriented applications.