International Association for Nanojoining and Microjoining (NMJ)

The NMJ Association is a non-profit scientific association founded in 2019 by partner institutions from Switzerland, Canada, China, Japan and the USA, as hosted by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology (Empa, CH).

The NMJ Association strives to:

• push the development of Nanojoining and Microjoining as a new scientific discipline and technology
• bring together experts from academia and industry to stimulate know-how exchange and international collaborations in the field of Nanojoining and Microjoining
• organize education and training events on Nanojoining and Microjoining technologies
• provide guidelines for the organization of NMJ Conferences, such as:
  - evaluate and select the venue of upcoming NMJ Conference
  - disseminate and communicate the NMJ Conferences' outcome in special issues of peer-reviewed journals
  - evaluate and assign NMJ Student Travel Grants for attending the NMJ conference
  - nominate and grant NMJ Awards for outstanding scientific achievements in the field