Oxidation degree or sheet size: What really matters for the photothermal effect and ecotoxicity of graphene oxide?

A set of thirteen GO samples obtained following different methodologies and described by eight structural parameters – hydrodynamic diameter (658 nm–142 nm), size polydispersity index, optical absorption coefficient, lambda maximum, D/G peak intensity ratio, crystallite size, distance between defects, and pH – was submitted to NIR 808 nm irradiation (experiment 1) and fish embryo toxicity (FET) test performed with zebrafish embryos (experiment...