| Acronym | Meaning |
| PTMG | Polytetramethylene Glycol |
| PFR | Plug Flow Reactor |
| TBLMTO | Tight-binding Linear (combination Of) Muffin-tin Orbitals |
| CMF | Crossflow Microfiltration |
| PCM | Phase-change Medium |
| SIC-GX-LSD | Self-interaction Corrected Generalized Exchange Local Spin Density |
| WLE | Wigner-Liouville Equation (in Study Of Quantum Dynamics) |
| MFI | Melt Flow Index [of Polymer] |
| CAD | Collisionally Activated Dissociation |
| ERLN | Environmental Research Laboratory Narragansett |