| Acronym | Meaning |
| LFM | Lateral Force Microscopy |
| CERN | Conseil Europeen Pour La Recherche Nucleaire |
| SNP | Sodium Nitroprusside |
| NPC | Nonparenchymal Cell |
| ECPSSR | Energy-loss Coulomb-repulsion Perturbed-stationary-state Relativistic Theory |
| DFA | Dual Fouling Apparatus |
| QRHF-CC | Quasirestricted Hartree-Fock Coupled Cluster |
| RTP | Reinforced Thermoplastic |
| CSIR | Council For Scientific And Industrial Research (South Africa) |
| ELMO | Energy-localized Molecular Orbital |