Emerging Technologies and Innovation in Business: Artificial Leaf Tech

This essay delves into the realm of emerging technologies, specifically focusing on artificial leaf technology and artificial photosynthesis. It highlights the potential of these innovations to revolutionize various industries by providing sustainable energy solutions. The essay explains how artificial leaves mimic the natural process of photosynthesis, utilizing carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to produce fuel, thereby offering a closed-loop system that converts carbon dioxide into usable fuel. It also discusses the artificial photosynthesis process, which generates energy-dense liquid fuel from solar energy, water, and carbon dioxide, potentially leading to carbon-neutral power plants. The document emphasizes the importance of these technologies in reducing reliance on non-renewable resources and addressing the growing energy demands of the global population. References to relevant research papers and studies are also included, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject matter.

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Emerging Technologies
In the competitive times, the emerging technologies and innovative processes are the
need of almost all the business undertakings. In all the industries like retail, automobiles,
service, the regular update of technology is a must since it can give firms an edge in the
competitive environment. In 2017, some of the most key emerging technologies are liquid
fuels that can be derived from the artificial-leaf technology (Gil-Garcia, Helbig & Ojo, 2014).
Artificial-leaf technology
This new technical system would basically act like a real leaf and use the carbon
dioxide, water, and sunlight for the purpose of producing fuel. Such kind of “artificial leaves”
could bring about a revolutionary change in the environment since it would give rise to a
closed model where the produced carbon dioxide could be converted into fuel instead of
burdening the environment (Khanagha et al., 2013). This new technology would allow
mankind to produce carbon-rich fuel in a sustainable manner. Actually, this emerging model
has been proposed since quite some time but it did not get off the ground since it was
considered to be an uneconomical model. But today it is believed that the artificial leaf is
much more efficient than the natural photosynthesis process because it allows the CO2 in the
air into alcohol that can be burned as a fuel (Robinson et al., 2013).
Artificial photosynthesis
The artificial photosynthesis process that would be carried out would use the natural
inputs i.e. solar energy, water, and carbon dioxide in order to generate the energy-dense
liquid fuel. This new system could utilize the pure carbon dioxide in its gaseous state or the
gas that is available in the air. It shows that it would not introduce any additional greenhouse
gas into the atmosphere (Tomlin et al., 2013). This efficient model sounds like magic to the
ears. Theoretically, this model could be used in large-scale power plants to turn water, air,
salt, and sunlight into usable fuel without the need to manufacture batteries to save this
energy. This process would be almost carbon neutral since the carbon dioxide would be
converted into fuel that could be used for utilized for important processes. The solar fuel that
would be generated in the process would reduce the dependence on non-renewable resources
of energy (Robinson et al., 2013).
For a number of decades, scientists have been working on this concept so that they
can produce fuel that can be stored and used at a future time. This emerging technical idea

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could simplify the issues of researchers and scientists and solve the key challenge relating to
the solar and wind power. Different scientists from all around the globe have been working
on this model to enhance the fuel production process. The actual introduction of the new
concept on the global platform could resolve the issue faced by mankind relating to lower
energy sources (Khanagha et al., 2013). The sustainable energy solution will facilitate the
adequate generation of fuel and could meet the needs of the growing human population as
well as the corporations. Like a real photosynthesis process, this emerging technology would
introduce a positive change on the environmental front and improve the work processes. If
humans could efficiently mimic the process used by plants to generate fuel, the Earth’s
energy issue could be solved (Tomlin et al., 2013).
References
Gil-Garcia, J. R., Helbig, N., & Ojo, A. (2014). Being smart: Emerging technologies and
innovation in the public sector. Government Information Quarterly, 31, I1-I8.
Khanagha, S., Volberda, H., Sidhu, J., & Oshri, I. (2013). Management innovation and
adoption of emerging technologies: The case of cloud computing. European
Management Review, 10(1), 51-67.
Robinson, D. K., Huang, L., Guo, Y., & Porter, A. L. (2013). Forecasting Innovation
Pathways (FIP) for new and emerging science and technologies. Technological
Forecasting and Social Change, 80(2), 267-285.
Tomlin, Z., Peirce, S. C., Elwyn, G., & Faulkner, A. (2013). The adoption space of early-
emerging technologies: evaluation, innovation, gatekeeping (Pathways to Adoption of
Technologies in Healthcare-PATH).