| Acronym | Meaning |
| GPPS | General Purpose Polystyrene |
| VPAM | Variable Phase Amplitude Method (for Electron-atom Scattering) |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| APOE | Apolipoprotein E |
| BFT | Bonded Function Theory |
| CCGF | Coupled Cluster Green Function |
| ISD | Inclined Substrate Deposition |
| CCMET | Coupled-cluster Many-electron Theory |
| OFISP | Oscillating Flow Injection Stripping Potentiometry |
| WLA | Waste Load Allocation |