Aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors are considered to be a promising candidate for large-scale energy storage devices owing to their high safety, long life, and low price. In this paper, a nitrogen doped hierarchical porous carbon is evaluated as the cathode for aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors. Benefiting from the synergistic merits of excellent structural features of N-HPC and tiny zinc dendrite of Zn anode in ZnSO₄ electrolyte, the zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitor exhibits excellent energy storage performance including high capacity of 136.8 mAh·g⁻¹ at 0.1·Ag⁻¹, high energy density of 191 Wh·kg⁻¹, large power density of 3,633.4 W·kg⁻¹, and satisfactory cycling stability of up to 5,000 cycles with a capacity retention of 90.9%. This work presents a new prospect of developing high-performance aqueous rechargeable zinc ion energy storage devices.

We describe a facile one-pot synthesis of porous covalent sulfide-bridged polytriazine nanospheres (NOP-28), which can be employed as highly efficient sorbents and at the same time act as selective sensitive sensors towards trace Hg²⁺.