 In 2006 he achieved the title of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (Ever-lasting Names) for his work in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.Rafii-Tabar has been also active in the research field of treatment of nonlocal elasticity theory as applied to the prediction of the mechanical characteristics of various types of biological and non-biological nanoscopic structures with different morphologies and functional behaviour, contributing to scholary output such as "Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures".He has also worked in disease diagnosis field developing nanosensors for early detection of cancer biomarkers  and also conceptual designs for nanodevices that can identify and destroy individual cancer cells.