Nano-iron was doped into activated carbon by a simple precipitation method. The new material was characterized by BET and TEM and further it along with activated carbon were evaluated in the adsorptive capacity for different factors such as pH, initial concentrations, adsorption time and under batch tests and regenerability was also conducted. The results showed that nano-iron particles were successfully doped into activated carbon.The adsorption process of the new material was more favorable at high pH value, and when pH equals 6,the maximum adsorptive capacity of nano-iron and activated carbon achieves to 18.73 mg/g, which is higher then that of activated carbon, increases by 150 %. Adsorption isotherm fitted well Langmuir and Freundlich models. And adsorption kinetics fitted well with Pseudo-second-order models, as to the loading nano-iron may cause obstruction of copper diffusion to the active adsorptive sites, in comparing with the adsorption rate of activated carbon, that was only 0.002 g/(mg·min), decreases by 60 % . The new material has a good regenerability and better application prospect.