The invention provides a TiO2 single-crystal hollow square nanocone material and a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method includes: mixing 1, 6-hexamethylene diamine and cyclohexane, and then adding Ti(OC4H9)4; adding deionized water, and stirring and mixing to obtain suspension; sealing the obtained suspension, performing heating reaction, cooling, centrifuging, precipitating and washing, and drying to obtain the TiO2 single-crystal hollow square nanocone material. Compared with the prior art, the preparation method has the advantages that the anatase TiO2 single-crystal hollow square nanocone material prepared by the method has a large amount of exposed {101} faces and large specific surface area; the TiO2 single-crystal hollow square nanocone material has excellent photocatalytic activity on organic dye rhodamine B, methyl orange and colorless organic small-molecular phenol and is high in degrading efficiency, good in stability, environmentally friendly, simple in preparation process and low in cost.