AMSilk named to TIME’s List of Best Inven­tions of 2026

AMSilk, a glob­al lead­er in advanced bio­ma­ter­i­als made from silk pro­teins, has been named to TIME’s Best Inven­tions of 2026 with­in the cat­egory FASH­ION, recog­niz­ing the company’s break­through tech­no­logy for cre­at­ing high-per­form­ance mater­i­als from bioen­gin­eered silk proteins.

Today, TIME reveals its annu­al list of the Best Inven­tions, which fea­tures 300 extraordin­ary innov­a­tions chan­ging our lives.
To com­pile this year’s list, TIME soli­cited nom­in­a­tions from TIME edit­ors and cor­res­pond­ents around the world, and through an online applic­a­tion pro­cess, pay­ing spe­cial atten­tion to grow­ing fields, such as health care and AI. TIME then eval­u­ated each con­tender on a num­ber of key factors, includ­ing ori­gin­al­ity, effic­acy, ambi­tion, and impact.

AMSilk trans­lates pro­tein-based bio­tech­no­logy into advanced mater­i­al solu­tions for the next gen­er­a­tion of products. The com­pany designs and engin­eers nat­ur­al silk pro­teins and trans­forms them into high-per­form­ance bio­ma­ter­i­als for indus­tri­al-scale applications.

Com­bin­ing pro­tein engin­eer­ing, pre­ci­sion fer­ment­a­tion and pro­pri­et­ary pro­cessing tech­no­lo­gies, AMSilk enables mater­i­al prop­er­ties to be tailored at the pro­tein level. This allows the cre­ation of mater­i­als with cus­tom­ized aes­thet­ics, desired tact­ile qual­it­ies and defined func­tion­al per­form­ance while main­tain­ing indus­tri­al con­sist­ency, scalab­il­ity and com­pat­ib­il­ity with estab­lished man­u­fac­tur­ing processes.

By bring­ing bio­tech­no­logy into mater­i­al cre­ation, AMSilk expands what advanced mater­i­als can be. Its tech­no­logy enables indus­tries to move bey­ond exist­ing mater­i­al cat­egor­ies and cre­ate mater­i­al solu­tions that com­bine engin­eered per­form­ance with meas­ur­able envir­on­ment­al advant­ages.
See the full list here: TIME Best Inven­tions 2026

About TIME Best Inven­tions
For more than 25 years, TIME has high­lighted the world’s most impact­ful new products, tech­no­lo­gies and ideas through its annu­al Best Inven­tions list. The 2026 edi­tion fea­tures 300 innov­a­tions selec­ted by TIME’s edit­ors and cor­res­pond­ents based on cri­ter­ia includ­ing ori­gin­al­ity, effic­acy, ambi­tion and impact. The list show­cases inven­tions that are chan­ging how people live, work, play and think about what is possible.