| Acronym | Meaning |
| AACVD | Aerosol-assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| PIPN | Pseudo Interpenetrating Polymer Network |
| SCPF | Self-consistent Polarization Field Method |
| IMC | Intermetallic Matrix Composite |
| GIAO | Gage Invariant Atomic Orbital |
| IBSCA | Ion Beam Spectrochemical Analysis |
| EDL | Electroless Discharge Lamp |
| CBO | Corrected Born-Oppenheimer (in Calcns. For Mol. Complexes) |
| PTGS | Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing |
| OLT | Orthotopic Liver Transplantation |