https://www.selleckchem.com/products/BafilomycinA1.html Soil and groundwater contamination with lead (Pb) poses serious challenges for the environment. Activated carbon (AC) and biochar have huge potential application in the in-situ remediation processes through permeable reactive barriers (PRB). Spectral induced polarization (SIP) technique recently showed promises in nondestructively monitoring the spatio-temporal characteristics of physical, chemical and biological processes in porous media. In this study SIP technique was used for monitoring Pb remediation by AC and biochar in column scale. The calculated characteristic grain/pore size evolutions from SIP signals on AC, agreed well with the size of precipitates measured by SEM and mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) methods. The content increment process of the retained Pb on AC was also recorded via the magnitude increment of the imaginary conductivity. The mechanisms of Pb-AC and Pb-biochar interactions were investigated using SEM-EDS, TEM, FTIR, XRD, and XPS measurements. It showed that AC immobilizes through physical adsorption and precipitation, whereas complexation with functional groups is the remediation mechanism for biochar. Furthermore, the observed SIP responses of both AC and biochar are two orders of magnitude higher than those of typical natural soils or silica materials. This distinct difference is an additional advantage for the field application of SIP technique in PRB scenarios.In recent years, waste mobile phones have become popular as electronic waste due to the huge amount, serious pollution with improper disposal and high resource value. It is imperative to realize the recycling of resources in waste mobile phones. The application of emulsion liquid membrane in the recovery of gold and synthesis of nanomaterials from waste mobile phone printed circuit boards (WMPCBs) was studied. The components of the emulsion liquid membrane, effects of 7 factors on the extraction rate and the morphology