Nitrogen Doping Engineering of V2CTx based Zinc Ion Hybrid Microcapacitors with Quadruple High Energy Density

•The introduction of N heteroatoms by NH3 annealing can dramatically increase the electrical conductivity of V2CTx and simultaneously widen the voltage window to 1.9 V.•The N-V2CTx based ZIHMC show a high areal capacitance of 293.0 mF cm-2 at 0.3 mA cm-2, higher three times than that of pure V2CTx based ZIHMC due to the additional pseudocapacitance introduced by doped nitrogen atoms.•The capacitance retention of N-V2CTx based ZIHMC is 84.80% as the current is increased from 0.30 to 2.00 mA cm–2, and 94.80% after 3000 cycles at 2.00 mA cm–2, demonstrating outstanding rate capability and cycle performance.•The N-V2CTx based ZIHMC exhibit excellent electrochemical performance even under serious mechanical deformation, which imply good flexibility. To accommodate the long-term and stable energy supply requirements for wearable electronics, the reported flexible zinc ion hybrid microcapacitor (ZIHMC) needs to further increase the energy density. So, a nitrogen doped V2CTx (N-V2CTx) based ZIHMC was proposed to achieve high electrochemical performance. The introduction of N heteroatoms by NH3 annealing can dramatically increase the electrical conductivity of V2CTx and simultaneously widen the voltage window to 1.9 V. In detail, the doped nitrogen atoms in V2CTx based device has a maximum capacity of 293.0 mF cm–2, four times higher than that of pure V2CTx based ZIHMC. The mechanism of the enhanced electrochemical performance by nitrogen doped V2CTx was revealed by the experimental analysis and theoretical simulation. And the N-V2CTx based ZIHMC demonstrated high energy density with 150.0 μWh cm–2 at a power density of 380.0 μW cm–2 and excellent stability with 94.80% capacitance retention after 3000 charge-discharge cycles. The N-V2CTx based ZIHMC also presents excellent flexibility without virtually capacity loss after 3000 bending cycles. The good electrochemical performance and flexibility of N-V2CTx ZIHMC make it has potential applications in flexible wearable electronics.