Herein, we report a UV-responsive single-microcapsule self-healing material with enhanced UV-shielding SiO2/ZnO hybrid shell for epoxy coating. Firstly, the epoxy resin and photoinitiator were micro- encapsulated into SiO2 shell with mesoporous structure to synthesize SiO2 microcapsule using surfactant F127 as structurally directing agent, by our improved interfacial and in-situ polymerization mothed [31]. Subsequently, ultrathin ZnO nanoparticles as UV absorber were in-situ embedded into mesoporous of SiO2 microcapsule shell. The ZnO nano- particles highly dispersed into mesoporous SiO2 shell endow micro- capsule with excellent UV absorbing ability and effectively reduce undesired UV-light curing of healing agents inside microcapsule embedded into coating before the generation of microcracks. Mean- while, in contrast to polymer shell, our stable inorganic SiO2 counterpart could avoid the degradation fate catalyzed by photo-responsive ZnO or TiO2 nanoparticles, thereby enhancing the stability of the microcapsule. As expected, SiO2/ZnO microcapsules aged for 21 day under UV radia- tion still preserve good self-healing performance for epoxy coatings.