LEXINGTON, Va., June 26 -- Virginia Military Institute issued the following news release:
LEXINGTON, Va. June 26, 2026 -Imagine living in an impoverished country and being a parent of a child in need of a prosthetic bone. The cost of one prosthesis would be prohibitive, but over the lifetime of a developing child, it would have to be replaced multiple times to keep up with the child's growth. Xavier Zarza '28, a biology major at Virginia Military Institute, envisions a substantially less expensive alternative in his Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) project, "Electroplating 3D Prints for Antiseptic and Inert Properties in Prosthetics."
3D printing is the process of creating three-dimensional objects from a digital file by build...