Iestyn Armstrong-Smith

Iestyn Armstrong-Smith is special projects editor at Texere Publishing. For around 20 years, he’s been reporting on the impact of industry on the environment and how technology and processes can help bring about beneficial changes. His first editorial post was assistant editor, followed by a promotion to associate editor on LC-GC International. Since then, Iestyn has held senior editorial and management roles for a specialist commercial, scientific, technical marketing and communications company that focuses on the gas, oil and petrochemical industries; a publishing house for market-leading industrial IT magazines; and an educational publisher. “For the last seven years, I ran my own freelance writing business,” says Iestyn.

Content by Iestyn Armstrong-Smith:

Fields & Applications Materials

Faster Raw Material Analysis

07/23/2015 | Iestyn Armstrong-Smith

Hetero Drugs Limited in Hyderabad, India, is a research-based global pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing, manufacturing and marketing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), intermediate chemicals and finished dosages.

Fields & Applications Spectroscopy

FTIR Takes the Heat for Aerospace

07/23/2015 | Iestyn Armstrong-Smith

Handheld FTIR spectrometers have proven capable of measuring thermal damage in various carbon fiber composites used in modern aerospace applications.

Techniques & Tools Spectroscopy

Countering Counterfeit Medicine Little by Little

07/20/2015 | Iestyn Armstrong-Smith

Sulaf Assi is a lecturer in forensic sciences at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Bournemouth University, UK.

Techniques & Tools Spectroscopy

A Briefcase Full of NMR

03/23/2015 | Iestyn Armstrong-Smith

One half of The Blues Brothers, shares the story behind the innovative technology that is enabling scientists to perform spectroscopic analyses in minutes instead of hours or even days.

Techniques & Tools Sensors

You wear it so well

03/31/2014 | Iestyn Armstrong-Smith

A multitude of wearable biosensors for monitoring our personal health and the external environment are on the way, led by technologies to improve performance in sport and all-round fitness. They are easy to use, will cost little and provide useful, real-time information. Stand by for the democratization of analysis.

Techniques & Tools Environmental

What will it take to clean up our act?

02/24/2014 | Iestyn Armstrong-Smith

Could – and should – analytical science be more environmentally friendly?

About the Author

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