The invention provides a large-area nano carbon material and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of nano carbon materials. According to the invention, the oxidation-reduction potential difference between a nanocarbon dispersion liquid and metal is used as driving force, the metal is used as a substrate, in-situ self-assembly growth is carried out under simple and mild conditions (room temperature or low temperature of 20-100 DEG C, and high temperature is not needed), the large-area nanocarbon material supported and loaded by the metal is obtained, raw material consumption is low, operation is simple and easy, and expansibility is high. The nano carbon material is not limited by instruments (a drying oven, a heating plate and the like), can be directly made into multiple forms such as a tubular form, a sheet form and a foam form, is used in the fields of energy chemistry and environmental chemistry, and can etch a metal substrate as required to prepare a regular and uniform multi-form large-area nano carbon material without metal support for application.