| Acronym | Meaning |
| NEVE | Nonempirical Valence Electron Method |
| XAS | X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy |
| OVMO | Occupied Valence-type Mol. Orbital |
| CBD | Cellulose-binding Domain |
| SCPOM | Self-consistent Projecton Operator Method |
| CVM-CI | Constrained Variational Method-CI |
| SH2 | Src-homology 2 |
| MBRS | Molecular Beam Relaxation Spectrometry |
| TFFF | Thermal Field Flow Fractionation |
| EETU | Environmental Education And Training Unit |