PROFORMA – C

(Format for Submission of Syllabus)

RAYALASEEMA UNIVERSITY
KURNOOL - 518 002 (A.P)

1. Name of the Candidate : Mr. Samdani

2. Registration No. :PP PHY 0141

(Attach Copy)

3. Subject / Department : Physics

4. Name of the Research Guide : Dr.M.Khaled Mubashir Uz Zafar

5. Title of the Research Topic & Thesis :

Study of variations in the electrical properties of some metal oxides due to the effects of
odors from some fluids of human and animal body.
(or)
Study of detection of odours from human and animal body fluids

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Topic Heading

(Be specific & clear compatible with research work & Thesis)

(There shall be Four or Five Units in the syllabus)

Unit – I : Structure and function of micro molecules

Structure and function of disaccharides and polysaccharides. Classification of proteins. Primary

and secondary structures of proteins . chemistry of nucleic acids. DNA duplication. Protein
synthesis. Structure and function of lipids.

Unit – II : Enzymes and biocatalysis

Classification of enzymes. Michaelis-Menten model for enzyme catalyzed reactions. lineweaver-
Burke plots. Inhibitors-specific and non-specific.Modified Michaelis-menten.Model for fully
competitive and non competitive inhibited enzyme catalyzed reactions. Enzyme specificity.
Enzyme structure and function relation.

Unit – III : Biological dielectrics and Biological Dielectrophoresis

Theory of homogeneous dielectrics. Theory of heterogeneous dielectrics. Types of

electrical polarization; Frequency dependence of dielectrics. Experimental Techniques for the
study of dielectric parameters of cells, and soft and hard calcified tissues.

A simple description of dielectrophoresis. Behavior of charged and neutral matter in (a )

uniform and (b) non-uniform electric fields. Bunching effects or pearl chain formation of cells.
Field geometries- spherical ,cylindrical and isomotive. Dielectrophoretic force in radial field.
Dielectrophoretic collection rate (DCR) of cells in radial field. Experimental technique for DCR
of biological cells. Calculation of excess permittivity of cells.

Unit – IV : Bio-instrumentation

Bioelectric signals and electrodes-Electrode and electrolytic interface; Surface and metal
plate electrodes; Needle and wire electrodes; Microelectrodes. 1. Physiological transducers 2.
Variable resistance transducers 3. Variable inductance transducers 4 .Variable capacitance
transducers 5 .Thermo resistive transducers 6. Photoelectric transducers 7. Piezoelectric
transducers. Biomedical amplifiers - basic requirements; Differential amplifiers; Carrier
amplifier; Chopper amplifier; Phase sensitive detector.

References :

1 Essentials of biological chemistry - Fairley & Kilgour

2 Dielectrophoresis - H A Pohl
3 Hand Book of biomedical instrumentation - R S Khandpur
4 Principles of medical electronics and biomedical instrumentation- C Raja Rao & S K
Guha, Universities Press.
5 Solid state Physics- B S Bellubbi and Adeel Ahmed
Signature of the Research Guide Signature of the Candidate