Due to extraordinary properties of graphene, it becomes one of the most promising materials in many applications. Graphene and it’s derivatives like graphene oxide, functionalized graphene oxide/graphene have been used in electronic devices, drug delivery, membrane and separation processes, additives and composites. Despite several graphene producing methods, because of good quality, mass production and versatility of graphite oxide-based chemical method, the method has been taken notice. The method is a way containing several steps. The steps include graphite preoxidation, main oxidation, Exfoliation, reduction and functionalization. In this study, each step was investigated with several preparation methods to select the best one based on aim of each step. Selected methods of each step accompanied with reforms and changes, were got together and made appropriative way for producing graphene and functionalized one. Graphite preoxidation with selected method increased interlayer distance of graphene layers 0.17 %. Main oxidation with double modified hummers and modified tour methods increase interlayer distance 1.65 and 3.65 % more than conventional hummers and tour methds respectively without poisonous gases production like N 2 O and N 2 O 4 . Step by step exfoliation and reduction/functionalization of graphite oxide is one of the most common graphene producing method. Time consumption and high temperature condition is one of the challenging problems. In this study, in addition to conventional one, room temperature and short time simultaneous exfoliation and reduction/functionalization of graphite oxide carried out under ultrasonication. Both of them work successfully. Graphene was functionalized with octadecyl amine by the way and used as additives in four weight percent of polymer (0,0.2,0.4,0.8) to make superhydrophobic electrospun poly (vinylidene fluoride-co-haexafluoro propylene) (PVDF-HFP)- octadecyl amine functionalized graphene nano sheets(ODA-FGNS) composite nanofibrous membranes. Addition of ODA-FGNS to PVDF-HFP solution increased hydrophobicity, salt rejection percentage, porosity, mean pore size and mean nanofiber diameter. 0.2 % ODA-FGNS addition shew beter effects for composite nanofibrous membrane because of good dispersibilty. In the percent, desalination and product flux increased 1.3 and 16.8 % more than pure nanofibrous membrane respectively. In this study X-ray diffraction (XRD), Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Raman, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and contact angle (CA) techniques were used for characterization. Keywords : graphite oxide; graphene; exfoliation; reduction