| AD | Alzheimer’s Disease |
| AF555 | Alexa Fluor |
| AFM | Atomic Force Microscopy |
| AGO | Amino-functionalized GO |
| APTES | ((3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane) |
| AuNPs | Gold Nanoparticles |
| BBB | Blood Brain Barrier |
| Brim | Brimonidine |
| CD | Circular Dichroism |
| CEF | Cephalexin |
| CG | Claisen Graphene |
| Chi | Chitosan |
| CLSM | Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy |
| CMC | Carboxymethylcellulose |
| CNT | Carbon Nanotubes |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal Fluid |
| Cur | Curcumin |
| DAPI | 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole |
| DDS | Drug Delivery System |
| DI | Deionized |
| DLS | Dynamic Light Scattering |
| DOX | Doxorubicin |
| FA | Folic Acid Antibody |
| FBS | Fetal Bovine Serum |
| Fe3O4@GO | Iron Oxide decorated Graphene Oxide |
| FGMs | Functional Graphenic Materials |
| FITIC | Fluorescein Isothiocyanate |
| FL | Fluorescein |
| FTIR | Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| G(IIKK)4I-NH2 | Antibacterial peptide |
| GCE | Glassy Carbon Electrode |
| GO | Graphene Oxide |
| GOChi | Chitosan functionalized Graphene Oxide |
| GO-IONP | Graphene Oxide—Iron Oxide nanocomposites |
| GOn | Nano Graphene Oxide |
| HA | Hyaluronic Acid |
| HDF | Human Dermal Fibroblast |
| Hep | Heparin |
| hFOB | Human Fetal Osteoblast |
| h-MC | Hybrid Microcapsule |
| HOG | Human Oligodendroglia |
| HSCs | Hematopoietic Stem Cells |
| IO | Iron Oxide |
| LbL | Layer-by-layer |
| Lf | Lactoferrin |
| mGO | Magnetic Graphene Oxide |
| NIR | Near Infrared Radiation |
| NP’s | Nanoparticles |
| OVA | Ovalbumin |
| P(glu) | Poly glutamate |
| P(lys) | Poly lysine |
| PAA | Poly (acrylic acid) |
| PAA-Cys | Poly(acrylic acid)-cysteine |
| PAH | Poly(allylamine hydrochloride) |
| PB | 1-Pyrenebutyrate |
| PBAE | Poly(β-amino ester) |
| PBS | Phosphate Buffered Saline |
| PC12 | Pheochromocytoma Cells |
| PD | Parkinson’s Disease |
| PEDOT:PSS | Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate |
| PEG | Polyethylene glycol |
| PEI | Poly(ethylene imine) |
| PEMf | Polyelectrolyte Multilayer films |
| Pep | Synthetic peptides |
| PLL | Poly L-Lysine |
| PMMA | Poly(methylmethacrylate) |
| POAA | Polyoxyalkyleneamine |
| PolyCD | Polycyclodextrins |
| PS | Polystyrene |
| Pue | Puerarin |
| PVP | Poly N-vinylpyrrolidone |
| PYM | Pingyangmycin |
| QCM | Quartz Crystal Microbalance |
| rGO | Reduced Graphene Oxide |
| RS | Raman Spectroscopy |
| SA | Sodium Alginate |
| SEM | Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| Si | Silicon |
| SPR | Surface Plasmon Resonance |
| STM | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
| TEM | Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| THF | Tetrahydrofuran |
| ThS | Thioflavin S |
| TR | Texas Red |
| XPS | X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy |