Figure 9

Stepwise construction of an 8-component self-sorting mixture (concentration of each component = 1 M): a) all 256 possible states (color coding: self-sorted states, green; non-self-sorted states, red.), b) plot of all 40320 pathways, c) steps that transform a self-sorted state to another self-sorted state, d) steps that transform a non self-sorted state to another non self-sorted state, e) steps that transform a non self-sorted state to a self-sorted state, and f) steps that transform a self-sorted state to a non self-sorted state.