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Rao LabDepartment of Materials Science · Deccan Institute of Science

Research Scientist · 2018–

Dr. Daniel Okafor

Senior Research Scientist

Research interests: In-situ electron microscopy

Daniel runs the lab’s electron microscopes and built our liquid cells.

Publications

Watching gold nanorods grow, one atomic layer at a time

P. Natarajan, D. Okafor, L. Fischer, A. Rao

Nature, 2026Cover articleCited by 3

Liquid-cell microscopy reveals how nanocrystals nucleate

D. Okafor, M. Chen, T. Herrera, A. Rao

Nature Materials, 2025Cited by 41

Strain maps of single nanocrystals in three dimensions

M. Chen, D. Okafor, A. Rao

Nature Communications, 2024Cited by 88

A low-cost liquid cell for any electron microscope

D. Okafor, V. Shah, A. Rao

Ultramicroscopy, 2023Cited by 140

Method for growing gold nanorods of any aspect ratio

A. Rao, D. Okafor

Patent application, 2021Patent