Recent advances of electrode materials based on nickel foam current collector for lithium-based batteries – A review

Three types of advanced lithium-ion (LIB), lithium-sulfur (LSB), and lithium-oxygen (LOB) batteries are promising energy storage systems due to their high energy densities and efficiencies. These novel batteries have some advantages and challenges and according to their technologies, various compositions and substrates are utilized to spread their usages in different fields of human life and decrease their limitations. The most common substrates that are used in these energy storages are classified as aluminum foil, copper foil, nickel foam, etc. Hence, among these samples, nickel foam due to its high conductivity and cost-effectiveness attracts great attention and can be used as anode or cathode current collectors for different batteries. Additionally, numerous active materials such as carbonaceous, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), noble metals, and metal sulfides are introduced to utilize in these technologies. Thus, in this review, after an introduction to nickel foam, the role of each active material based on nickel foam for three types of LIBs, LOBs, and LSBs is investigated, and the performance of each composition battery application is determined.