in the above scheme , pp - g - ma is provided to copolymerize with polyoxyalkylene amine and thus form a comb - like amphibious polymer , pp - g - ma / polyoxyalkylene amine . this comb - like structure includes a backbone of apolar polypropylene , and side chains having polar functional groups of polyoxyalkylene ending with an amino group . the polyoxyalkylene can be polyoxyethylene ( poe ), polyoxypropylene ( pop ) or the like . the maleic anhydride has high cyclic tension and easily reacts with nucleophilic molecule , so that primary aliphatic amine can react with maleic anhydride at 70 ° c . to open the cyclic structure and form a structure having functional groups of carboxylic acid ( cooh ) and amide . the amphibious polymers , pp - g - ma / polyoxyalkylene amine , is then dissolved in an organic solvent and acidified with an inorganic acid to form an emulsion . next , the emulsion is mixed with an inorganic layered silicate clay to enlarge interlayer distances thereof or directly exfoliate the clay . to further explain the present invention , some preferred examples are described in detail as the follows . in these examples , montmorillonite ( mmt ) is used , which is an alumino - silicate clay , and has a structural formula including two layers of tetrahedral silicate and one layer of octahedral alumina therebetween . in general , the primary structure of the mmt includes average 10 parallel lamellae and is about 100 å high with interlayer distances about 12 å . the secondary structure of the mmt is about size 0 . 1 – 10μ in diameter and can be formed by aggregating hydrophilic silicate thereof . the clay such as mmt may have cation exchange capacity ( cec ) in a wide range , and preferably within 50 – 200 meq / 100 g . beyond such a range , the clay is difficult to be swelled because of insufficient ion exchange or excessive interlayer attraction . the mmt used in the following examples is kunipia f ( na + - mmt , cec = 115 meq / 100 g ). the pp - g - ma used in the examples is produced by eastman co . ( epolene e - 43 or mpp - 9100 ), which has weight average mw = 9100 detected with gel permeation chromatography , numerous average mn = 3900 , and titration acid value = 47 mg koh / g . the maleic anhydride contained in the pp - g - ma is 4 wt . %, or 3 . 7 maleic anhydride for each pp - g - ma polymer starin . the polyoxyalkylene amine used in the examples is commercial product of huntsman chemical co ., and include jeffamine ® d - 2000 , poly ( propylene glycol ) bis ( 2 - aminopropyl ether ), having the following structure , and jeffamine ® ed - 2001 , poly ( propylene glycol )- block - poly ( ethylene glycol )- block - poly ( propylene glycol ) bis ( 2 - aminopropyl ether ), having the following structure , montmorillonite kunipia f ( 5 g , cec = 15 meq / 100 g ) is dispersed in water ( 500 ml ) at 80 ° c . ), and then vigorously stirred for 4 hours to form an earth - colored stable homogenous slurry in water . pp - g - ma ( 37 g , containing 15 mmole maleic anhydride on polypropylene ) is added into toluene and heated to 120 ° c . ; ed - 2001 ( 30 g , 15 mmole ) is then added therein to form a gel - like precipitate which is the amphibious intercalating copolymeric agent pp - g - ma / ed - 2001 . completion of the reaction can be judged by ftir analysis for the characteristic amide absorption . the amphibious intercalating agent pp - g - ma / d - 2001 ( 13 . 2 g , containing 5 . 75 meq of end amino group ) is dissolved in toluene , and then equivalent moles of hydrochloric acid ( 37 % in water ) is added for acidification at 80 ° c . for 30 minutes . the acidification converts amine into a quaternary ammonium salt which forms emulsion in toluene / water and appropriate for intercalating . the acidified emulsion of step 3 is added into the slurry of step 1 , and then powerfully stirred at 80 ° c . for 5 hours to perform cation exchange or exfoliating or intercalating process . the resultant mixture is then settled and filtered . the filtered solid is then dried in a vacuum oven at 80 ° c . for 24 hours to obtain a dried tint - yellow solid exfoliative clay , pp - g - ma / ed2001 / mmt . repeat steps of example 1 , but in step 4 , intercalating the layered inorganic silicate clay is carried out at 120 ° c . in an autoclave reactor and the pressure over 14 . 7 psi , and finally obtain an exfoliative clay , pp - g - ma / ed2001 / mmt . repeat steps of example 1 but replace ed2001 with d2000 and finally obtain an exfoliative clay , pp - g - ma / d2000 / mmt . repeat steps of example 2 but replace ed2001 with d2000 and finally obtain an exfoliative clay , pp - g - ma / d2000 / mmt . repeat steps of example 1 , but use less amount of intercalating agent , that is various ratio of pp - g - ma / ed2001 to mmt is applied as listed in table 1 , and finally obtain an intercalated clay , pp - g - ma / ed2001 / mmt . the interlayer distances detected with x - ray diffraction is listed in table 1 . repeat steps of example 2 , but use less amount of intercalating agent , that is various ratio of pp - g - ma / d2000 to mmt is applied as listed in table 1 , and finally obtain an intercalated clay , pp - g - ma / d2000 / mmt . the interlayer distances detected with x - ray diffraction is listed in table 1 . repeat steps of example 1 , but only ed2001 is used for intercalation in a weight ratio as listed in table 1 , and finally obtain an intercalated clay , ed2001 / mmt . the interlayer distances detected with x - ray diffraction is listed in table 1 . repeat steps of example 2 , but only d2000 is used for intercalation in a weight ratio as listed in table 1 , and finally obtain an intercalated clay , d2000 / mmt . the interlayer distances detected with x - ray diffraction is listed in table 1 . the exfoliative sample , indicated by xrd analysis , implicates the complete layer delamination or no basal spacing for xrd , while intercalating still exhibits basal spacing or ordered structure of layered mmt . as shown in table 1 , in comparing examples 1 – 2 and comparative example 1 , as well as examples 3 – 4 with comparative example 2 , the intercalating agent must be over the stoichiometric requirement of the mmt cec to reach the desired exfoliation and tga also showed the ratios of organic matter to clay in examples 1 – 4 are higher than others , and then the exfoliative clay can be obtained at 80 ° c . and 120 ° c . that is , the direct exfoliation rather than only intercalation ( 19 . 5 – 58 å ) may depend on the ratio of the organic matter to the clay . in the present invention , the weight ratios less than 74 . 3 / 25 . 7 and higher than 86 . 4 / 13 . 6 respectively result in intercalation and direct exfoliation . the diameters according to laser particle analysis are about 1 μm and 100 nm in toluene for the intercalated clay and the exfoliated clay , respectively . further comparison ( comparative examples 3 and 4 ) which affords only intercalation implicates the importance of the amphiphilicity of the copolymer with pp - g - ma / ed2001 structure , only ed2001 or d2000 can not exfoliate the mmt clay . the modified clays of examples 1 – 2 and comparative examples 1 – 4 are mixed in toluene , ethanol and water to observe the dispersion states thereof . as shown in table 2 , when the same intercalating agents are applied , the exfoliative clays exhibit similar dispersion state with ethanol as intercalated clays of comparative examples 1 and 2 . however , the exfoliative clays exhibit better dispersion state with hydrophobic toluene than the intercalated clays of comparative examples 1 and 2 . as for the modified clay of comparative examples 3 and 4 , only ethanol or toluene can be compatible therewith , which is not suitable for serving as a surfactant for organic materials . the modified clays of examples 1 – 2 and comparative examples 1 – 2 , and the intercalating agents , pp - g - ma / ed2001 and pp - g - ma / d2000 , are mixed in a mixture containing toluene and water . the interfacial tensions changing with concentrations are measured and shown in fig1 . fig1 shows that the exfoliative clays , i . e ., pp - g - ma / ed2001 / mmt of example 1 in accordance with the present invention , performs superior effect of reducing the interfacial tension between toluene and water to about 7 . 5 dyne / cm at very low concentration of 10 ppm , and to only 3 . 8 dyne / cm at 100 ppm . another exfoliative clay , pp - g - ma / d2000 / mmt also exhibits similar surfactant effect as the intercalated clays of comparative examples 1 and 2 . the intercalating agents , pp - g - ma / ed2001 and pp - g - ma / d2000 can reduce the interfacial tension to a degree , but it &# 39 ; s inferior when compared with the above . therefore , it can be analogized that polymers such as epoxy resin , polypropylene ( pp ), polyethylene glycol terephthalate ( pet ), polystyrene ( ps ), syndiotactic polystyrene ( sps ), polyurethane ( pu ), nylon and styrene - acrylnitrile copolymer ( san ), can be easily dispersed in these exfoliative clays under a nanoscale regime to form inorganic / organic composite materials . furthermore , characteristics of polymers such as resistance to heat distortion , gas barrier properties , rigidity , etc ., may be improved by mixing with these polymers to form various kinds of nanomaterials . repeat steps of example 1 , but acidification temperature is controlled at 80 ° c . and various emulsion states are applied as listed in table 3 . diameters of the emulsified intercalating agent are measured at 25 ° c . and listed in table 3 . repeat steps of example 1 , but acidification temperature is controlled at 25 ° c . and various emulsion states are applied as listed in table 3 . diameters of the emulsified intercalating agent are measured at 25 ° c . and listed in table 3 . as shown in table 3 , regardless of the emulsion state being w / o or o / w , the higher acidification temperature results in the finer particles . the mean diameters of the pp - g - ma / ed2001 intercalating agent are only 72 nm and 256 nm when acidified at 85 ° c ., and consequently direct exfoliation can be achieved . as for the acidification temperature 25 ° c ., the diameters of the intercalating agent are more than 1 , 000 nm . that is , the exfoliate clay can only be achieved by emulsifying the intercalating agent at very fine particle . the larger particle of emulsification results in only the intercalating clay . the derivative of the exfoliative clay in accordance with the present invention can be produced by steps of : a ) dissolving the exfoliative caly ( 2 g ) obtained from one of examples 1 – 4 in toluene ( 100 ml , 110 ° c .) at a predetermined temperature to form an emulsion a ; b ) dispersing the na + - mmt ( 5 g ) in hot water ( 600 ml , 80 ° c .) and powerfully stirring to obtain an emulsion b ; c ) mixing the emulsion a and the emulsion b by powerfully stirring at 80 ° c . for 30 minutes ; d ) adding sodium hydroxide ( 5n , 600 ml ) with powerfully stirring at 80 ° c . for 3 hours ; and e ) leaving the mixture static for settling and then collecting precipitates dispersed in lower water . na + - mmt exfoliation can be caused by the emulsion b obtained in the step ( c ). the extracted and collected precipitates are the nanosilica plates , and the upper liquid is an organic solution containing the intercalating agent , which can be recycled for reusing . yield of the “ pure ” nanosilicate plate obtained according to the above procedure can reach more than 90 wt . %. the conventional nanomaterial is usually spherical , filmy or cylindrical , however , the derivative of the exfoliative clay produced in accordance with the present invention has high aspect ratio and is plate - shaped in a dimension of approximately 100 × 100 × 1 nm .