A photocatalytic material which comprises a resin base and photocatalyst
particles tenaciously deposited thereon in such a manner that the
function of the photocatalyst is not impaired. Even when the
photocatalytic material is used over long, the photocatalyst particles
are less apt to shed and the resin base is less apt to deteriorate. In
the photocatalytic material, the photocatalyst particles have been bonded
to the base by chemical bonding through a silane compound. The
photocatalytic material is characterized in that the chemical bonding
through a silane compound is bonding by graft polymerization, and that
the graft polymerization is radiation-induced graft polymerization.