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Progress in Materials Science 57 2012 1061–1105 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Progress in Materials Science j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / p m a t s c i Chemical functionalization of graphene and its applications Tapas Kuila a, Saswata Bose a, Ananta Kumar Mishra b, Partha Khanra a, Nam Hoon Kim c, Joong Hee Lee a,b,c,? a Department of BIN Fusion Technology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk 561-756, Republic of Korea b BIN Fusion Research Center, Department of Polymer Nano Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk 561-756, Republic of Korea c Department of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk 561-756, Republic of Korea a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Functionalization and dispersion of graphene sheets are of crucial Received 8 August 2011 importance for their end applications. Chemical functionalization Received in revised form 6 February 2012 of graphene enables this material to be processed by solvent- Accepted 4 March 2012 assisted techniques, such as layer-by-layer assembly, spin-coating, Available online 30 March 2012 and ?ltration. It also prevents the agglomeration of single layer graphene during reduction and maintains the inherent properties of graphene. Therefore, a detailed review on the advances of chem- ical functionalization of graphene is presented. Synthesis and char- acterization of graphene have also been reviewed in the current article. The functionalization of graphene can be performed by covalent and noncovalent modi?cation techniques. In both cases, surface modi?cation of graphene oxide followed by reduction has been carried out to obtain functionalized graphene. It has been found that both the covalent and noncovalent modi?cation tech- niques are very effective in the preparatio