Patent ID: 8507778

Claim:
A method of creating a closed and self-assembled multimer model structure, the method comprising: (a) providing a plurality of separate, non-connected structurally symmetric units that form a self-assembled multimer structure, each of said units having a plurality of at least one type of basic component, said basic components comprise at least one type of attachment entity being positioned in or on a portion thereof, said units having structural complementarity to one another so as to form the closed and self-assembled multimer structure upon inducing proximity and orientation of said attachment entities; and (b) encouraging by application of undirected kinetic energy said plurality of said separate, non-connected units to physically interact through random motion therebetween via said attachment entities, thereby creating the closed and self-assembled multimer structure; wherein self-assembly persists from a separate, non-connected state of the units to the formation of the closed multimer structure.