Scientific and technological advances continue to successfully exploit the fascinating properties of graphene, a class of materials with a two dimensional structure that possess an array of unique properties. It consists of single atom thick monolayers hexagonally arranged sp2 bonded carbon atoms forming a lattice, the thinnest known substance made from carbon, with a large specific surface area that is exceptionally strong and stiff with a high thermal and electrical conductivity. This two-dimensional sp2-hybridized carbon material itself is inert to many reactants and all graphene-bound anions reported to date possess major limitations in terms of their electronic tunability and coordination chemistry. However, graphene oxide (GO), a highly defective form of graphene with a disrupted sp2-bonding network, offers imperfect polar surfaces and secondary reactive sites capable of covalent and non-covalent chemical modification with organic and inorganic molecules . Research on graphene oxide specifically exploiting the high oxygen containing functional groups has seen new frontiers with promising applications as nanomaterials for analytical chemistry, heavy metal pollutant cleaning up agents[6–10], biotechnology, electronics, optics, energy storage, bio and chemical sensors and electronic nano-devices[12–14]. Tubular carbon nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), discovered by Iijima, have also been in the research forefront in the last decade due to their excellent electrical properties with a superb conductivity, remarkable mechanical strength and modulus with many potential technological applications . However, newer materials such as Aerographite with micro and nano tubular network structures have been reported to exhibit very high surface area and large free volume with low density that are flexible and possess outstanding mechanical properties with enormous prospect in supercapacitors to electrocatalyst applications . Aerographite decorated by ZnO nanocrystallites have been reported that have promising applications in optoelectronic technologies, aerographite-GaN hybrid networks as possible next generation materials for electronic, photonic and sensors applications, and carbon nanowall (CNW) tetrapods coupled to nanocrystalline diamond in a 3D hybrid form as an excellent candidate for energy storage are other remarkable examples of advanced 3D carbon-based materials. Also very recently, introduction of ionic groups in the graphene lattice have been reported, exemplifying the first of an ionic graphene salt containing boron. These new materials consist of single functionalized graphene or GO sheets, which adhere together by van der Waals forces with residual π-π stacking between the faces of each sheet. 3D graphene oxide networks can also be synthesised by metal ion coordination chemistry, which has been shown to be an effective way of interconnecting or cross-linking carbon nanotubes (CNTs) , GO , or chemically modified graphene (CMG) with CNTs through the oxygen-containing functional groups via divalent cations (Ca2+, Mg2+, Cu2+ and Pb2+).