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A company whose technology can kill 99.9 percent of human coronavirus in two hours is among three start-ups based on Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington research that dominate the finalists in the Innovation Gold Category of this year’s Wellington Gold Awards.
Inhibit Coatings was founded in 2016 by Dr Eldon Tate, who studied in the University’s Te Wānanga Matū School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, and uses a broad-spectrum silver antimicrobial agent effective at killing more than 650 types of microorganisms, also including Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Influenza A (H1N1), Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter spp.
The technology’s effectiveness against human coronavirus is the company’s latest discovery, with the agent able to be applied to textiles, filters on face masks, and surfaces inside vehicles such as planes or buses.