Antifouling Surface Coatings from Self‐Assembled Zwitterionic Aramid Amphiphile Nanoribbons

Zwitterionic surfaces are increasingly explored as antifouling coatings due to their propensity resist protein, bacterial, and cell adhesion typically applied polymeric systems. Here, the self-assembly of strongly interacting small molecule amphiphiles is reported produce nanoribbons for applications. Synthesized spontaneously form micrometers-long with nanometer-scale cross-sections intrinsically display a dense coating zwitterionic moieties on surfaces. Substrates coated demonstrate concentration-dependent thicknesses near superhydrophilicity. These surface then probed properties substantial reductions demonstrated in protein adsorption, bacterial biofilm formation, relative uncoated controls. Harnessing cohesive self-assembling nanomaterials offers facile route effective