| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMS | Aerospace Material Specification |
| NNI | National Nanotechnology Initiative |
| DOVAM-S | Detection Of Virtually All Mutations-SSCP |
| PCILO | Perturbative Configuration Interaction Using Localized Orbitals |
| LPAS | Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy |
| PICP | Carboxyterminal Propeptide Of Type I Procollagen |
| BPDA | 3,3',4,4'-biphenyltetracarboxylic Dianhydride |
| CLS | Classical Least-squares |
| CFRT | Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite |
| ECS-P | Energy-corrected Sudden-polynomial (scaling Law) |