Noboby knows how to exactly use Raman spectroscopy for GO, due to its singular and dynamic nature. Many other bands are ignored, I considered at least 5 or 6 bands of great concern. Here I pointed out that the festures at around 1700-1800 cm-1 are referred to non-regular rings (Stone-wales defects, holes, cavities, 5-7-7-5 or 5-8-5 rings).
There are even other spectral features before D-band, between D and G and so on, which are very useful to understand the wide variety of oxygenated moieties within GO honeycomb. Remember: GO structure DOES NOT POSSESS only alcoholic, epoxy and carboxyl moieties, as many researchers said. The aromatic domains around -OH and -COOH end groups leads to the formation of a singular, strange and highly variegated chemical environment. Do you need to get some quick confirmation? Well, if you put into water a little of GO, pH becomes highly acidic. Carboxyls are less than 10% and pKa of -COOH is about 4.5-5.5. So, how could one explain its strong acidity?
#Andrea Maio: Sir you mentioned about 5 or 6 bands are of great concern. Can you share some more ideas about the bands. Also it's very interesting that GO shows acidic behavior. I would try this out.
It will be very helpful to me if you can share some more experience of GO.
According to Andrea's question; how could one explain its strong acidity? I would suggest you to go through the article mentioned below. Hope you will understand.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3, 867−872
Regarding different bands present in GO, is explained in the article I shared before.