Introduction

RAK CAM was founded in late 2007 under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.

The creation of RAK CAM comes in the middle of the scientific and technical revolution of Advanced Materials. In the last decade enormous progress has been made in the synthesis, characterization, and understanding of materials with atomic dimensions. A wide variety of scientifically and technologically interesting nanostructured materials have been synthesized and investigated. Investigations of the mechanical, chemical, electrical, magnetic, and optical behaviour of nanostructured materials have demonstrated the possibilities to engineer the properties of these new materials through control of the sizes of their constituent building blocks and the manner in which these constituents are assembled. It is now quite clear that through such nanostructuring we can access novel material property regimes in a revolutionary manner.