“…This technique has become rather popular for the characterization of the surface oxygen functionalities of activated carbon [45,49,79,84,94,[124][125][126][127][128][129][130][131][132]. During a TPD experiment, surface oxygen groups on carbon materials are decomposed upon heating by releasing CO 2 at lower temperatures and predominantly CO at higher temperatures and in some cases H 2 O and H 2 , at different temperatures [45,49,52,61,67,84,93,[132][133][134][135].…”