The invention discloses a structural color material and a preparation method thereof. The structural color material comprises a substrate, a
metal layer located on the substrate and a protective layerlocated on the
metal layerwherein a nano cavity array is arranged in the
metal layer. The preparation method comprises the following steps: 1) preparing a thin
film material comprising a substrate, ametal layer and a protective layer; and 2) performing
laser direct writing on the thin
film material to obtain the structural color material. According to the preparation method, programmed-controlled large-area structural
color printing is realized through a special
laser direct writing processing mode; the preparation difficulty of the nano optical
crystal is greatly reduced, the cavity can beaccurately regulated and controlled by changing the power of the
irradiation laser, so that the regulation and control of the color of the structural color material are realized, and the method is notlimited to the arrangement of a certain repetitive
structural unit in different forms, and can be used for regulating the
structural unit.