| Acronym | Meaning |
| NIWG | National Interagency Work Group |
| GDR | Giant Dipole Resonance |
| CTE | Coefficient Of Thermal Expansion |
| INPI | The French National Institute Of Industrial Property |
| SLC | SLAC Linear Collider |
| SEND | Surfaces Enhanced For Neat Desorption |
| FCV | Fast Cyclic Voltammetry |
| DFMFT | Density-functional Mean-field Theory |
| ROHF | Restricted Open-shell Hartree-Fock |
| OIA | Office Of International Activities |