With the escalating concerns over environmental pollution, effective management of industrial waste has emerged as a critical research focus in modern materials science. In this study, we developed cobalt-cobalt oxide doped lignin-based porous carbon materials (Co@CoO@MPC) by employing zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) decorated with industrial black powder—a byproduct rich in lignin and carbon. The synthesis involved potassium hydroxide (KOH)-assisted microwave activation, which enabled the creation of a porous structure, thereby markedly increasing the specific surface area and interfacial properties of the composites. During pyrolysis, ZIF-67 underwent transformation into cobalt (Co) and cobalt oxide (CoO) phases. The synergistic interaction between Co/CoO and the porous carbon significantly enhanced microwave absorption through both dielectric and magnetic loss mechanisms. The Co@CoO@MPC composites demonstrated exceptional microwave absorption properties across a broad frequency range, particularly at higher frequencies. Specifically, the sample after 2-min microwave irradiation exhibits a high EAB value of 5.7 GHz (1.6 mm thickness) and an RL_min value of −30 dB (2.0 mm thickness). This research not only offers an innovative approach to recovering resources from industrial black powder but also provides groundbreaking strategies for developing high-performance microwave-absorbing materials.

Oil pollution is a serious environmental and natural resource problem. Traditional adsorption materials for oil–water separation have limitations in terms of their preparation cost, reusability, and mechanical properties. Among the conventional adsorption materials, super-hydrophobic/super-lipophilic materials are easily contaminated by oil. In this study, polypropylene (PP) is used as a foam substrate to prepare an open-cell PP foam via hot pressing, supercritical CO₂ foaming, and electron beam (EB) irradiation. The impact of EB irradiation dose on the open-cell content of PP foam can lead to cell wall rupture, resulting in an open-cell structure that enhances oil-water separation performance. At an absorbed radiation dose of 200 kGy, the PP foams exhibit optimal oil–water separation performance, cyclic compression stability, heat insulation, and preparation cost. The open-cell content of PP foam is increased to 86.5%, the adsorption capacity for diesel oil is 42.8 g/g, and the adsorption efficiency remains at 99.6% after 100 cycles of oil desorption in a complex pH environment. Meanwhile, cracks and nano-voids simultaneously promote the capillary action of oil, and the oil transport rate is 0.0713 g/(g·s). This study provides a new concept for the preparation of open-cell polymer foams that can meet the demand for high oil-absorption capacity under complex acid-base pH conditions.