We show the experimental achievement of dry GO membranes with interlayer spacings in the range from 7.09 Å to 8.72 Å, tuned and fixed by salts. We found that the interlayer spacings were dominated by the anions or the groups with negative charges in between the GO membranes. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the highly efficient tuning of the interlayer spacing in dry GO membranes is due to ion-π interactions on the graphene sheets, together with the steric effects of anions in between the GO sheets. The findings are helpful for extending their potential applications including chemical sensors, nanomaterial devices preparation, chemical catalysis and synthesis, and gas separation.
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