The present application belongs to the technical field of color paste dispersant, and particularly relates to a dispersant for water-based nano color paste and a preparation method thereof. In the present application, inorganic two-dimensional nanosheets are used as rigid carriers, amino groups are introduced through amino-containing
silane coupling agents, a step-by-step
grafting strategy is adopted, carboxyl groups in the anchoring group are activated by EDC / NHS first, and then react with the amino-functionalized nanosheets to form
amide bonds, and then hydrophilic
solvent chains terminated by carboxyl groups are grafted to obtain a
bifunctional grafting dispersant; wherein the two-dimensional nanosheets are
montmorillonite or
graphene oxide, the anchoring group is a
carboxylic acid compound containing an aromatic ring, and strong adsorption is achieved on the surface of the
pigment through π-π stacking; the
solvent chains extend into the aqueous phase to provide steric hindrance; the rigid
nanosheet skeleton prevents the collapse of the
solvent chains; the dispersant prepared by the method has high dispersing performance in the water-based nano color paste, can realize nano-level dispersion of
pigment particles, and has excellent storage stability.