Abbreviations

Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

Atomic Force Microscopy

Additive Manufacturing

Attenuated Total Reflectance

Back-Scattered Electron

Computer Aided Design

Cross Direction

Commission Internationale de l’Éclairage (International Commission on Illumination)

Carr–Purcell–Meiboom–Gill

Computed Tomography

Draw Ratio

Density Functional Theory

Diethyl Phthalate

Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Degree of Polymerisation

Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy

Differential Scanning Calorimetry

Direct Temperature

Direct Temperature-resolved Mass Spectrometry

Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic Acid

Storage Modulus

Loss Modulus

Binding Energy

Ethylenediamine-N,N′-bis(2-hydroxyphenylacetic acid)

Energy Disperse X-Ray Spectroscopy (also EDX)

Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid

Energy Disperse X-Ray Spectroscopy (also EDS)

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

Electromotive Force

Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy

Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure

Fused Deposition Modelling

Fused Filament Fabrication

Focused Ion Beam

Flame Ionisation Detection

Fibre Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy

Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Fourier Transform Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy

Fourier Transform Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry

Gas Chromatography

Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectroscopy

High Performance Liquid Chromatography (or High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography)

Heteronuclear Single Quantum Coherence

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy

Infrared

Laser Ablation

Liquid Chromatography

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Light Microscopy

Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization

Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Machine Direction

Micro Hot Table

Microbiologically Induced Corrosion

Mid Infrared

Number Average Molar Mass

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Mass Spectroscopy

N-methyl-N-(t-Butyldimethylsylil)trifluoroacetamide

Weight Average Molar Mass

Neutron Activation Analysis

Near Infrared

Nonlinear Optical

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Nuclear Reaction Analyses

Optical Microscopy

Polyamide

Principal Component

Principal Component Analysis

Polymerization Chain Reaction

Photon Excitation Fluorescence

Polyethylene Glycol

Polyethylene Terephthalate

Particle-Induced Gamma-ray Emission

Particle Induced X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy

Biopolymer Polylactic Acid

Polarized Light Microscopy

Peptide Mass Fingerprinting

Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectroscopy

Polyurethane

Polyvinyl Acetate

Polyvinyl Chloride

Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy

Radio Frequency

Retardation Factor

Relative Humidity

Rapid Prototyping

Reflectance Transformation Imaging

Styrene Acrylonitrile

Small Angle X-ray Scattering

Secondary Electron

Size Exclusion Chromatography

Scanning Electron Microscopy

Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Standard Hydrogen Electrode

Second Harmonic Generation

Selective Laser Sintering

Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Temperature

Thermal Conductivity Detection

Total Electron Yield

Transmission Electron Microscopy

Glass Transition Temperature

Thermogravimetric Analysis

Thermally Assisted Methylation

Thin Layer Chromatography

Melting Temperature

Thermomechanical Analysis

Tetramethylammonium Hydroxide

Time of Flight

Thermoplastic Elastomers

Triphenyl Phosphate

Thermoplastic Polyurethane

Shrinkage Temperature

Ultraviolet

Visible

Volatile Organic Compound

Wavelength Dispersion

Wavelength Dispersive Spectroscopy

X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

X-ray Diffraction

X-Ray Fluorescence

Depth Direction