Common Acronyms

AFM

Atomic Force Microscopy

ATR-FTIR

Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

BMSF

Bioanalytical Mass Spectroscopy Facility

BRIL

Biological Resources Imaging Laboratory

CCL

Commercial and Consulting Laboratory

CD

Circular Dichroism

CP-MAS

Cross polarization magic angle spinning

CT

Computed Tomography

DESI

Desorption Electrospray Ionisation

DLS

Dynamic Light Scattering

d-STORM

Direct Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy

DOC

Dissolved organic carbon

EDS/EDX

Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy

ED-XRF

Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

EMU

Electron Microscope Unit

EPR

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

ESR

Electron Spin Resonance

FCS

Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

FIB

Focussed Ion Beam Microscopy

FLIM

Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging

FPLC

Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography

FRAP

Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching

FRET

Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer

FTIR

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

GC

Gas Chromatography

GC-MS

Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

HPLC

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

IC

Ion Chromatography

ICP-MS

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

ICP-OES

Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy

IRMS

Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry

ITC

Isothermal Titration Calorimetry

KGLMF Katharina Gaus Light Microscopy Facility

LA-ICP-MS

Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

LC-MS

Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

LC-OCD

(Size Exclusion) Liquid Chromatography with Organic Carbon Detection

LSFM

Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

MALDI

Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization

MAS

Magic Angle Spinning

MPI

Magnetic Particle Imaging

MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MS

Mass Spectrometry

MWAC

Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre

NMR

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

PALM

Photo-Activated Localization Microscopy

PET

Positron Emission Tomography

PL

Photoluminescence Spectroscopy

PXRD

Powder X-Ray Diffraction

SC-XRD

Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction for Crystallography

SEC

Size Exclusion Chromatography

SEM

Scanning Electron Microscopy

SHG

Second-Harmonic Generation

SIM

Structured Illumination Microscopy

SIMS

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

SPM

Scanning Probe Microscopy

SSEAU

Solid State and Elemental Analysis Unit

SSNMR

Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

STED

Stimulated Emission Depletion

TEM

Transmission Electron Microscopy

TF-XRD

Thin-Film X-Ray Diffraction

TIRF

Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence

TOF

Time of Flight

TOF-SIMS

Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

TIRF

Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence

UPS

Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy

WD-XRF

Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

XPS

X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

XRD

X-Ray Diffraction

XRF

X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry