Interdisciplinary Research Group 2: Quantum Sensing for Sustainable Agriculture
The crisis/global threat: Today's animal agriculture and row crop operations are not sustainable long-term.
![Two pie charts that show total US emissions in 2020, and a breakdown of agricultural emissions in 2020](/sites/unl.edu.research.nebraska-center-for-materials-and-nanoscience.quantum-approaches/files/styles/no_crop_720/public/media/image/IRG2%20graph.png?itok=TQ4pH1FW)
The goal: Develop low-cost, reliable biosensors with high efficiency and spectroscopy-increased sensitivity.
Senior Investigators
IRG Leader
Joe D. Luck
Control Systems for crop management
![Joe Luck](/sites/unl.edu.research.nebraska-center-for-materials-and-nanoscience.quantum-approaches/files/styles/4_3_720x540/public/media/image/luck.jpeg?itok=znAUYsiS)
Tami Brown-Brandl
Precision animal management
![Tami Brown-Brandl](/sites/unl.edu.research.nebraska-center-for-materials-and-nanoscience.quantum-approaches/files/styles/4_3_720x540/public/media/image/brown-brandl.jpeg?itok=IvXKvq4X)
Yufeng Ge
Precision agricultre
![Yufeng Ge](/sites/unl.edu.research.nebraska-center-for-materials-and-nanoscience.quantum-approaches/files/styles/4_3_720x540/public/media/image/ge.jpeg?itok=i05sIaMG)
Yinsheng Guo
Spectroscopy of soil nutrients
![Yinsheng Guo](/sites/unl.edu.research.nebraska-center-for-materials-and-nanoscience.quantum-approaches/files/styles/4_3_720x540/public/media/image/guo.jpeg?itok=zOqFEEL-)
Abdelghani Laraoui
Quantum Sensing
![Abdelghani Laraoui](/sites/unl.edu.research.nebraska-center-for-materials-and-nanoscience.quantum-approaches/files/styles/4_3_720x540/public/media/image/laraoui.jpg?itok=w3MeVW8s)
Xiaoshan Xu
Electric Control of Quantum States
![Xiaoshan Xu](/sites/unl.edu.research.nebraska-center-for-materials-and-nanoscience.quantum-approaches/files/styles/4_3_720x540/public/media/image/xu.jpg?itok=NY6AsSq9)