| Acronym | Meaning |
| PWBA-C-EX | Coulomb Corrected Plane Wave Born Approxn. (with) Exchange |
| SS | Stainless Steel |
| SCA | Semiclassical Coulomb Approximation |
| LLC | Lyotropic Liquid Crystal |
| MZPFGE | Multiple-zone Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis |
| LRS | Laser Resonant Shadowgraphy |
| IBD | Ion Beam Deposition |
| DAHS | Data Acquisition And Handling System |
| PPBA | Plane-wave Plane-wave Born Approximation |
| AGP | Alpha-1-acid Glycoprotein |