| Acronym | Meaning |
| SOLED | Stacked Organic Light Emitting Device |
| CRIB | Computerized Resources Information Bank |
| PDVB | Poly(divinyl Benzene) |
| NIWR | National Institute For Water Research (South Africa) |
| PLAD | Pulsed Laser Ablation Deposition |
| PPFD | Photosynthetic Photon Flux D. |
| SAPS | Spherical Average Pseudopotential |
| GCM | Global Climate Model |
| NOESY | Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectrometry |
| PDG | Patent Documentation Group |