“…Similar results supporting the low adsorption of carboxylic acids onto activated carbon supports can be found in the literature [28]. To take into account effects like surface over-oxidation of platinum [29,30], leaching, platinum particle growth, and site coverage [31], an empirical deactivation function a, defined as the fraction of nondeactivated sites [32,33] can be considered. In this respect, some authors claim that over-oxidation is a slow and reversible process that occurs under oxidation conditions [34,35], which can be described by a reversible transformation of oxygen adatoms into inactive subsurface oxygen [34].…”