Gabe Delle Monache

Gabe Delle Monache is a senior chemist at Destiny Copper, where he plays a key role in advancing sustainable materials and innovative metal recovery technologies. He is currently completing his PhD in Chemistry at Brock University, specializing in inorganic and materials chemistry with a focus on copper and rare earth compounds.

Gabe’s academic research centers on the design and synthesis of heterometallic rare earth and copper clusters for potential application in magnetic memory materials, particularly through the development of single-molecule magnets. His work has been published in several high-impact peer-reviewed journals, and he has earned multiple prestigious academic awards, including five Ontario Graduate Scholarships, the Bluma Appel Scholarship, and the NSERC Canada Undergraduate Scholarship.

He has presented his research at nine academic conferences across North America, including the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, the Southern Ontario Inorganic Discussion Week, the American Chemical Society’s CERM, and the Quebec-Ontario Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop. At Destiny Copper, Gabe applies his deep scientific knowledge to drive innovation in copper recovery and support the company’s mission to deliver environmentally responsible solutions for the materials and energy sectors.

Publications:

Synthesis, Structural, Magnetic and Computational Studies of A One-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Cu(II) Chain Assembled from a New Schiff Base Ligand, 2023, Chemistry.

The Evolution of Triphenylamine Hole Transport Materials for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells, 2022, Chem. Soc. Reviews.

A Cost-Device Efficiency Balanced Spiro Based Hole Transport Material for Perovskite Solar Cells, 2020, J. Mat. Chem. C.

Magneto-structural Studies of Two M–O–M Bridged Homochiral Mixed Valence Co(II)/Co(III)

Complexes, 2019, Polyhedron.