Inhibition of type 1 fi mbriae-mediated Escherichia coli adhesion and biofi lm formation by trimeric cluster thiomannosides conjugated to diamond nanoparticles Trimeric thiosugar clusters, conveniently obtained through a thiol-ene "click" strategy, have been effi ciently conjugated to alkynyl-functionalized nanodiamonds (NDs) using a Cu(I)-catalysed "click" reaction. These tri-thiomannoside clusterconjugated NDs (ND-Man 3 ) are shown to be potent inhibitors of type 1 fi mbriae-mediated E. coli adhesion to yeast and T24 bladder cells and moreover to inhibit E. coli-mediated biofi lm formation. This latter feature has only rarely been reported in the past for analogues featuring such simple multivalent glycosidic motifs and would constitute a useful additional characteristic of any anti-adhesive drug lead. anti-adhesive nanoparticles displaying activity against biofilms. In this work, trimeric thiomannoside clusters conjugated to nanodiamond particles (ND) were targeted for investigation. NDs have attracted attention as a biocompatible nanomaterial and we were curious to see whether the high mannose glycotope density obtained upon grouping monosaccharide units in triads might lead to the corresponding NDconjugates behaving as effective inhibitors of E. coli type 1 fimbriae-mediated adhesion as well as of biofilm formation. The required trimeric thiosugar clusters were obtained through a convenient thiol-ene "click" strategy and were subsequently conjugated to alkynyl-functionalized NDs using a Cu(I)-catalysed "click" reaction. We demonstrated that the tri-thiomannoside cluster-conjugated NDs (ND-Man 3 ) show potent inhibition of type 1 fimbriae-mediated E. coli adhesion to yeast and T24 bladder cells as well as of biofilm formation. The biofilm disrupting effects demonstrated here have only rarely been reported in the past for analogues featuring such simple glycosidic motifs. Moreover, the finding that the tri-thiomannoside cluster (Man 3 N 3 ) is itself a relatively efficient inhibitor, even when not conjugated to any ND edifice, suggests that alternative mono-or multivalent sugar-derived analogues might also be usefully explored for E. coli-mediated biofilm disrupting properties.