Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe

[Peter Lemkin]

New paper just published in the The Open Chemical Physics Journal

Nine impressively qualified co-authors - all apart from Steven Jones not known to me in connection with 9/11 studies before, though I don't claim exhaustive knowledge.

9/11 blogger and Global research are already onto it.

Paper conclusion:

Based on these observations, we conclude that the red layer of the red/gray chips we have discovered in the WTC dust is active, unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology, and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material.

Editor in chief of Open Chemical Physics Journal resigns after controversial article on 9/11

http://www.911blogger.com/node/19963

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Submitted by SnowCrash on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 1:31pm.

(SnowCrash has updated this blog entry with some very interesting background information on Ms. Pileni... kicking it up to the front page for review. -rep.)

The editor in chief of the journal where recently the paper: "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe" was published, resigned, claiming she wasn't informed of the publication. She proceeds to provide not a single solid scientific rebuttal, only administrative bickering and personal political bias against, well.. inconvenient science. One particularly notable comment attributed to Ms. Pileni is this one: "Marie-Paule Pileni points out that because the topic lies outside her field of expertise, she cannot judge whether the article in itself is good or bad.".

Strangely, her areas of research seem to contradict that. I'll quote you an excerpt of her resume:

OTHER ACTIVITIES
1990-1992: Chairperson on workshops related to the French Defense research.
1989-1992: Consultant at the Minister of Recherche concerning the National Defense 1989: Member of the “Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Européenne”.
1987-1988: Member of the ’“Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale” (IHEDN)1984-1986: Member of National exam in Chemistry

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
2006: Accounts of Chemical Research, American Chemical Society.
Journal of experimental nanosciences, Publisher Taylor&Francis.
2002: Journal of Physical Chemistry, Board member, American Chemical Society.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
1990-1994: Société Nationale des Poudres et Explosifs, SNPE, France (Literally translated: National Society of Powders and Explosives)

LABORATORY MANAGEMENT
2001: Laboratoire des matériaux mésoscopiques et nanomètriques, LM2N.
1992-2000: Structure et réactivité des systèmes interfaciaux, SRI. (Literally translated: Structure and reactivity of interfacial systems)

Interesting. Firm ties with the French/European military industrial complex. Experience with (powdered) explosives and nanotechnology. It's reasonable to assume Ms. Pileni is familiar with nano-explosives. So Ms. Pileni's contention that "the topic lies outside my field of expertise" is false. Why would a nanotechnology expert and former 'powdered explosives consultant' not want to comment on a paper discussing nano-thermitic explosives? A paper which caused her to resign? Puzzling

It doesn't seem too puzzling to me. She either sensed it was 'too close' to an 'uncomfortable truth' for her (or those she works with) 'comfort zone' - or was told/pressured to be uncomfortable with it. She is more than adequately trained to make a very sophisticated evaluation of the science behind the paper....or maybe she has been tapped to do another paper attempting to rebutt it. Or email and ask

Professor Marie-Paule PILENI
University Pierre & Marie Curie
Laboratoire des Matériaux Mésoscopiques et Nanométriques
BP 52, 4 Place Jussieu 75005 Paris- France
Ph. 33 1 44 27 25 16. Fax. 33 1 44 27 25 15.
e-mail: pileni@sri.jussieu.fr

http://redirect.upmc.fr/jussieu.html
"Professor Pileni’s research has been highly interdisciplinary in over all of her scientific career. Her accomplishments have impacted the broad areas of photochemistry, photobiology, solar energy conversion, nanomaterials, colloidal assembly and self-assembly. Most significantly, she has demonstrated an unprecedented control of chemical reactivity in colloidal systems and established novel physical principles, which govern the assembly of nanocrystals into supramolecular structures of great potential applicability. Professor Pileni’s accomplishments have been recognized by the increasing frequency of invitations to be a plenary lecturer at American, Japanese and other international scientific meetings, symposia and congresses."
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There is an interesting side benefit to this. Those, like the Brazil Nut and others who said the Journal didn't have a valid status like the 'top' paper Chemical Journals will see this person worked at one of the premier chemical institutes in the world - the Pierre & Marie Curie Institute and University.