The invention belongs to the technical field of supercapacitor electrode material preparation, and discloses a photothermally enhanced supercapacitor electrode material and a preparation method. The copper foam is put into hydrochloric acid for ultrasonic treatment, and after taking it out, it is cleaned several times with deionized water, and then placed in acetone. Ultrasonic treatment in medium; ultrasonically treat the copper foam treated with acetone ultrasonic treatment with deionized water and alcohol respectively, take it out and dry it in vacuum to complete the pretreatment; put the pretreated copper foam into thiourea solution, carry out hydrothermal reaction, take out after cooling, wash and dry; soak the obtained product in ferric chloride solution, take it out, wash and dry, and then obtain the photothermally enhanced supercapacitor electrode material. The photothermally enhanced supercapacitor electrode material provided by the present invention has a three-dimensional multi-level nanosheet structure and has a large specific surface area, thereby exposing more chemical reaction active sites, achieving the effect of increasing the specific capacity, and has good flexibility and stability.