On Sept. 23, 2022, researchers at Tufts University announced they had developed a method to make silk-based materials that refuse to stick to water, or almost anything else containing water.

The modified silk, which can be molded into forms like plastic or coated onto surfaces as a film, has nonstick properties that surpass those of nonstick surfaces typically used on cookware, and it could see applications that extend into a wide range of consumer and medical products.