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A work entitled "Rainbow Cube" by two MANA Scientists, Dr. Lok Kumar Shrestha and Dr. Jonathan Hill of the Supermolecules Group, Supermolecules Unit, MANA received the Award for Excellence at the 8th "Beauty in Science and Technology Panel Exhibition" held recently as part of Science and Technology Week. The material shown in the work is a three dimensional assembly of fullerene (C60) nanorods, and the details of the work can be found in their publication at J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1, 1174-1181. The Award Ceremony was held on April 11, 2014 at the Tokyo Headquarters Annex (K's Gobancho) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), and a commemorative plaque was presented to the two scientists by Dr. Akito Arima, Chairman of the Organization on Science and Technology.