The oxidation of the GNPs results in oxidized GNP... another route is to produce graphene oxide using modified hummer's method. Are the both product same??
I don't think both are same. Principally, local maximum UV peak for GO is at 232 nm while for graphene with oxygen groups is at 271 nm due to the difference in excitation transition. For GO, the formation of local maximum is caused by transition of sigma to sigma* molecules. In contrast to GO, graphene with oxygen group has intact basal structure and thus is resulting in the excitation transition of pie molecules to pie* and therefore local peak at 271 nm like pristine graphene. The difference between GO and graphene with oxygen group is more clear from the XPS characterisation of graphene product.