| Acronym | Meaning |
| WERC | Waste-management Education & Research Consortium |
| ODPAS | Optically Detected Photoacoustic Spectroscopy |
| SPES | Step Potential Electrochemical Spectroscopy |
| ALD | Atomic Layer Deposition |
| IRBP | Interstitial Retinol-binding Protein |
| KKR-GF | Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker-Green Function |
| MFC | Multiconfigurational Frozen Core (approxn. For Electron-atom Scattering Calcns.) |
| RHC | Rubber Hydrocarbon Content |
| RTCVD | Rapid Thermal Chem. Vapor Deposition |
| IRI | Interfaculty Reactor Institute |