Welcome to the Mangolini Research Group, the Laboratory for Applied Surface Science (LASS) at The University of Texas at Austin. Our interdisciplinary group focuses on the study of the structural transformations and chemical reactions occurring on material surfaces and at solid/solid, solid/liquid interfaces under extreme environments and conditions far from equilibrium.

 

Most Recent News

08/2026 [Publication] – Our collaboration with Prof. Iglesias’s  group (RIT) is accepted for publication in the ACS Omega!

08/2026 [Experiments] – Beamtime! Owen and Filippo work at the Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Exciting days of neutron reflectometry measurements!

08/2026 [Group Members] – The group welcomes Holden Temple, a new graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering!

07/2026 [Publication] – Our collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories is accepted for publication in Tribology Letters!

07/2024 [Conference] – Congratulations to Owen for being awarded the 1st place in the Graduate Poster Category at the 2026 Tribology Gordon Research Conference!