Magnesium/lithium hybrid-ion batteries
(MLHBs) combine
the advantages
of high safety and fast ionic kinetics, which enable them to be promising
emerging energy-storage systems. Here, a high-performance MLHB using
a modified all-phenyl complex with a lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide
electrolyte and a NiCo2S4 cathode on a copper
current collector is developed. A reversible conversion involving
a copper collector with NiCo2S4 efficiently
avoids the electrolyte dissociation and diffusion difficulties of
Mg2+ ions, enabling low polarization and fast redox, which
is verified by X-ray absorption near edge structure analysis. Such
combination affords the best MLHB among all those ever reported, with
a reversible capacity of 204.7 mAh g–1 after 2600
cycles at 2.0 A g–1, and delivers an ultrahigh full
electrode-basis energy density of 708 Wh kg–1. The
developed MLHB also achieves good rate performance and temperature
tolerance at −10 and 50 °C with a low electrolyte consumption.
The hybrid-ion battery system presented here could inspire a broad
set of engineering potentials for high-safety battery technologies
and beyond.