Talk:BioSteel (fiber)

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NPOV

This article reads almost like a press release. A lot of the phrasing, like "wonder material", "ultimate biodegradable material", or the constant use of ® makes it seem almost like this was copied from the company's own product page.

This section: "The company is currently turning a former American Air Force base in northern New York into a much larger goat farm -- one that includes adjacent lab space."

is irrelevant to the actual subject of the article, and "one that includes adjacent lab space" is very, very obviously from the company's own self-promotion.192.249.47.196 (talk) 16:27, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully this helped. Feel free to dive on in and do it yourself if you see language like that again. Just be sure to leave an edit summary explaining what you did. Thanks SmartSE (talk) 22:49, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2016 Biosteel from a different company

AMSilk GmbH is now producing a product named biosteel that is significantly different from the subject of this article. I've removed this text about the product as unrelated. With enough sources, a seperate article could be created.Dialectric (talk) 14:53, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

BIOSTEEL is an artificial silk fibre made from recombinantly produced silk proteins. The silk technology has been developed by AMSilk GmbH, a German industrial biotechnology company. The raw material for fibre production is manufactured via a proprietary industrial biotechnology production process.^[1]

BIOSTEEL has many special properties, such as high toughness and elasticity and a high E-modulus. It thus enables light weight construction. Moreover the fiber is 100% biodegradable and bacteriostatic.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Biosteel artificial spider silk fiber | Specialty Fabrics Review". specialtyfabricsreview.com. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
^ "Biosteel artificial spider silk fiber | Specialty Fabrics Review". specialtyfabricsreview.com. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
^ Eisoldt, Lukas; Smith, Andrew; Scheibel, Thomas. "Decoding the secrets of spider silk". Materials Today. 14 (3): 80–86. doi:10.1016/s1369-7021(11)70057-8.

Thanks for removing that. There is already AMSilk about this company. SmartSE (talk) 15:57, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, I removed the hatnote to AMSilk. First of all, the hatnote read "For the similarly named fibre ...", when apparently from this discussion (which I read afterwards) it was the same named fibre. More importantly, there is no mention of BioSteel at AMSilk, making it useless to learn much there. Feel free to make the necessary corrections as needed. Reagrds.—Bagumba (talk) 04:28, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I saw http://www.biosteel-fiber.com, so thought AMSilk might be a big deal. I mentioned Biosteel at AMSilk, and put a modified hatnote back.—Bagumba (talk) 05:01, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New source, new information

https://www.wired.com/story/the-race-to-put-silk-in-nearly-everything/ Intralexical (talk) 01:23, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Biosteel artificial spider silk fiber | Specialty Fabrics Review". specialtyfabricsreview.com. Retrieved 2016-06-07.

[2] "Biosteel artificial spider silk fiber | Specialty Fabrics Review". specialtyfabricsreview.com. Retrieved 2016-06-07.

[3] Eisoldt, Lukas; Smith, Andrew; Scheibel, Thomas. "Decoding the secrets of spider silk". Materials Today. 14 (3): 80–86. doi:10.1016/s1369-7021(11)70057-8.

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