Ian Marshall

Creditable performances earlier in the year but no titles to their names, China’s Zhan Dashun alongside Great Britain’s Bly Twomey took centre stage at the ITTF Fa40 SQY French Para Open 2023, a tournament full of players who have enjoyed success at the very highest level. Proceedings concluding on Sunday 12th November, neither seeded, Zhan […]

Aiming to repeat the success of four years ago when the tournament was held in the Peruvian capital city of Lima, players very much at the opposite ends of the experience scale head the United States entry at the Para Pan American Games. A five-day tournament staged in Santiago, Chile, proceedings commence on Thursday 16th […]

Over 900 islands, the largest of which is Guadalcanal, the Solomon Islands hosts the forthcoming 2023 Oceania Para Championships; staged in Honiara, the capital city, play takes place from Friday 17th to Monday 20th November. Australian names are to the fore. Now, over four years since the tournament was last held in Darwin in May […]

Impressive performances, Australia’s Chen Junjian, Nathan Pellissier and Lisa di Torro justified their top seeded status at the ITTF Oceania Para Championships 2023 in Honiara, Solomon Islands; in so doing they established their names amongst the most successful ever in the tournament that dates back a decade to 2013. Furthermore, alongside all gold medallists, they […]

A native Yorker, at the Para Pan American Games 2023 in Santiago, proceedings concluding after five days of action on Monday 20th November, Tahl Leibovitz continued his quite incredible record of success in the quadrennial gathering. Moreover, as with all men’s singles and women’s singles winners, he booked his place in the Paris 2024 Paralympic […]

Play concluding in the Chilean capital city of Santiago on Monday 20th November brought to an end the first stage of qualification for the table tennis events at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Overall, 47 men and 32 women reserved places in the French capital city, a schedule that involved continental tournaments being conducted in […]

Cable bacteria are multicellular, filamentous bacteria that use internal conductive fibers to transport electrons over centimeter distances from donors within anoxic sediment layers to oxygen at the surface. We extracted the fibers and used them as free-standing bio-based electrodes to investigate their electrocatalytic behavior. The fibers catalyzed the reversible interconversion of oxygen and water, and an electric current was running through the fibers even when the potential difference was generated solely by a gradient of oxygen concentration. Oxygen reduction as well as oxygen evolution were confirmed by optical measurements. Within living cable bacteria, oxygen reduction by direct electrocatalysis on the fibers and not by membrane-bound proteins readily explains exceptionally high cell-specific oxygen consumption rates observed in the oxic zone, while electrocatalytic water oxidation may provide oxygen to cells in the anoxic zone.

Players very much in form, Poland’s Karolina Pek and the host nation’s Rungroj Thainiyom head the entry list for the table tennis events at the 2023 World Abilitysport Games, the three-day event, commencing on Wednesday 6th December in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. At the European Para Championships staged earlier this year in Sheffield, Karolina Pek completed […]

The Engine Room in East Grinstead was recently voted North Sussex CAMRA Pub of the Year by its members, coming top of a short list of six pubs. This is the first time an East Grinstead pub has been voted North Sussex Pub of the Year.

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