Scientists are hailing a new adhesive patch as a breakthrough in the war against mosquitoes.

You wear it on your forehead and it releases via an adhesive patch electronic impulses that relax your muscles and stop you frowning.

Second, we are designing, fabricating and deploying adhesive patch technologies that yield appropriate adhesion and friction properties to facilitate necessary surface interactions.

In addition, medicine can be administered through the skin, by ointments or by means of adhesive patch, such as the nicotine patch or iontophoresis.

Adhesive patches, usually treated with a number of common allergic chemicals or skin sensitizers, are applied to the back.