The search for new porous materials is increasingly driven by a socio-economic pressure to diversify our energy supply and minimize environmental impact. Carbon-based nanostructured materials (CNMs) have been extensively investigated as potential hydrogen storage media but still with limited success. Strong indications, however, of the untapped potential of CNMs as next-generation sorbents are coming from numerical and theoretical work, in particular in the form of graphitic structures with optimised interlayer distances [S. Patchkovskii et al., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 102, 10439 (2005)]. The present proposal seeks to explore the intercalation of aniline into graphite oxide. It is motivated by recent synthetic efforts and X-ray diffraction studies showing the potential of ordered graphite-oxide structures for optimized gas-storage applications.