The invention discloses a preparation method of a Cu nanometer material. The preparation method comprises the following steps that bar-shaped ZnO is prepared through a direct deposition method, then ZnO is plated with Ni,
nickel-plated ZnO is wrapped by Cu, and finally the Cu-wrapped
nickel-plated ZnO nanometer material is modified through
hyaluronic acid. A
cancer cell detection method comprises the following steps that the Cu nanometer material is subjected to
fluorescein marking, then the Cu nanometer material and
cancer cells are cultivated together, and then put under a
laser microscope to be observed, and the number of the
cancer cells is quantitatively detected according to the
staining quantity. The Cu nanometer material prepared through the method has the beneficial effects of being easy to prepare, good in
biocompatibility, capable of being combined with the
cancer cell specific
receptor CD44 and the like. According to the method for utilizing the Cu nanometer materials for detecting the cancer cells, only the blood of a patient needs to be collected for in-vitro detection, the cancer cells can be recognized in few samples, and the cancer can be accurately, sensitively and atraumatically diagnosed in the initial stage of illness.