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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Nanoscience, Applications, and Commercialization. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25729.

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2D two-dimensional
3D three-dimensional
AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
ABET Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
ACS American Chemical Society
AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Research
AI artificial intelligence
AIM Photonics American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics
AIST National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ARPA-E Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
ARS Agricultural Research Service
caNanoLab Cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory
CEN European Committee for Standardization
CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
CNDN Canada’s National Design Network
CNST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
CNT carbon nanotubes
COR Communities of Research
CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission
CRDS Center for R&D Strategy
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Nanoscience, Applications, and Commercialization. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25729.
CVD chemical vapor deposition
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DoD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOI Department of the Interior
DOJ Department of Justice
DOT Department of Transportation
DRL Data Readiness Level
DURIP Defense Research Instrumentation Program
EC European Commission
EDF Environmental Defense Fund
EFRC Energy Frontier Research Center
EFTA European Free Trade Agreement
EHS environmental health and safety
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPO European Patent Office
EPP European Network of Pilot Production Facilities
ERC Engineering Research Center
ERI electronics resurgence initiative
EU European Union
EUON EU Observatory of Nanomaterials
EUV extreme ultraviolet lithography
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FinFET fin field effect transistor
FLC Federal Laboratory Consortium
ForLab Forschungslabore Mikroelektronik Deutschland
FP7 Seventh Framework Programme
FY fiscal year
GDP gross domestic product
H2020 Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
HGST Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
HT high technology
IC intelligence community
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Nanoscience, Applications, and Commercialization. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25729.
ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IMEC Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre
IoT Internet of Things
ISO International Standards Organization
JCAP Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LETI Laboratoire d’électronique et de technologie de l’information
MEXT Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
MGI Materials Genome Initiative
MINATEC Micro and Nanotechnology Innovation Campus
MNE multinational enterprise
MREFC Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction
MRI Major Research Instrumentation
MRS Materials Research Society
MURI Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
NAMI Nano and Advanced Materials Institute
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBCI Nanotechnology Business Creation Initiative
NCC nanocrystalline cellulose
NCE Networks of Centers of Excellence
NCI National Cancer Institute
NCL Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory
NCN Network for Computational Nanotechnology
NCSES National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
NEN Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship Network
NEWT Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment
NIA Nanotechnologies Industry Association
NIFA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIL Nanoparticle Information Library
NIMS National Institute for Materials Science
NINT National Institute for Nanotechnology
NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Nanoscience, Applications, and Commercialization. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25729.
NKI Nanotechnology Knowledge Infrastructure
NNCI National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure
NNCO National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
NNI National Nanotechnology Initiative
NNIN National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
NNMI National Network for Manufacturing Innovation
NNN National Nanomanufacturing Network
NQI National Quantum Initiative
NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory
NSB National Science Board
NSEC Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
NSET Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology
NSF National Science Foundation
NSI Nanotechnology Signature Initiative
NSRC Nanoscale Science Research Center
NSTC National Science and Technology Council
NTPJ Nanotechnology Platform Japan
NTRA NanoTechnology Research Association
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
PCA Program Component Area
PCAST President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
PV photovoltaic
QD-LED quantum-dot light emitting displays
QED-C Quantum Economic Development Consortium
QIS quantum information science
R&D research and development
REU Research Experiences for Undergraduates
ROI return on investment
RSC Royal Society of Chemistry
RSL regional, state, and local
S&E science and engineering
SAIT Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
SBIR Small Business Innovation Research
SIG Shared Instrumentation Grants
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Nanoscience, Applications, and Commercialization. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25729.
SINANO Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
SME small and medium-sized enterprise
SPIE International Society for Optics and Photonics
SPIRE Sustainable Process Industry Through Resource and Energy Efficiency
SRC Semiconductor Research Corporation
STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
STTR Small Business Technology Transfer
TIA Tsukuba Innovation Arena (formerly Tsukuba Innovation Arena for Nanotechnology [TIA-nano])
TTO technology transfer office
UCI University of California, Irvine
UCSD University of California, San Diego
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USFS U.S. Forest Service
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USPTO U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Nanoscience, Applications, and Commercialization. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25729.

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