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Email

gdasilva@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Education
PhD
University of Newcastle
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Newcastle
ORCID

0000-0003-4284-4474

A/Prof Gabriel da Silva

Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

186 Scholarly works
11 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Electrostatically tuning radical addition and atom abstraction reactions with distonic radical ions
    DOI: 10.1039/d4sc06333c
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Don’t forget the trans: double bond isomerism radical-acetylene growth reactions affect the primary stages of PAH and soot formation
    DOI: 10.1039/d4cp03554b
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Oxidation of Aminoacetaldehyde Initiated by the OH Radical: A Theoretical Mechanistic and Kinetic Study
    DOI: 10.3390/atmos15081011
  • 2024

    Thesis / Dissertation

    The one-electron self-interaction error in density functional theory: investigations toward an empirical correction
  • 2018

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Future Fuels CRC
  • 2017

    Research Grant

    Formation, Photochemistry and Fate of Gas-Phase Peroxyl Radicals
  • 2016

    Research Contracts

    Reaction Rate Modelling of Perflurionated Sulfonic Acids
Gabriel da Silva

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Gas-Phase Phenyl Radical O2 Reacts via a Submerged Transition State
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c06878
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Reactions of Acetonitrile with Trapped, Translationally Cold Acetylene Cations
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c00914
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Thermal decomposition mechanism and kinetics of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and other perfluorinated carboxylic acids: a theoretical study
    DOI: 10.1039/d2em00259k
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Modelling reaction kinetics of distonic radical ions: a systematic investigation of phenyl-type radical addition to unsaturated hydrocarbons
    DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00045h
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Toxic Chemical Formation during Vaping of Ethyl Ester Flavor Additives: A Chemical Kinetic Modeling Study
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00437
  • 2022

    Journal article

    PAH Growth in Flames and Space: Formation of the Phenalenyl Radical
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c08310
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Fivevs.six membered-ring PAH products from reaction ofo-methylphenyl radical and two C3H4isomers
    DOI: 10.1039/d1cp01764k

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2019

    Research Contracts

    Comprehensive Product Detection: Aromatic Oxidation and New PAH Pathways

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