“…The specific surface area of the initial bamboo char is more than 300 m 2 /g, while other chars dropped to around 200 m 2 /g. Other studies also observed a similar decline of char porosity. , Biomass is generally a good sorbent of liquid bio-oil for its macroporous structure that provides space for its condensation and retention. It was thus expected that the biomass in the second stage would capture a certain amount of bio-oil within the macropores or dense matrix if in contact with vaporous or liquid bio-oil from the pyrolysis of first stage. , Meanwhile, bio-oil is a mixture of aldehydes, ketones, furans, monosugars, sugar oligomers, pyrolytic lignin, phenolics, and others, ,− which are exceedingly reactive toward polymerization, especially under acidic conditions. , Therefore, the bio-oil can potentially fill the pores of parent biomass on the second layer by co-carbonizing the bio-oil and biomass together, which led to the decrease of char porosity.…”