We show that ionically self-assembled polyelectrolyte/surfactant complexes allow a facile route to tailor the electrical surface resistance of paper sheets for antistatic dissipative regime. We use anionic polyelectrolyte carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) where cationic alkyltrimethylammonium chloride surfactants (abcf106b5733db"" title=""Click to view the MathML source"">CnTAC) with the alkyl chain lengths n