 In April 2009, Jones, Dane Niels H. Harrit and seven other authors published a paper in "The Open Chemical Physics Journal", causing the editor, Prof. Marie-Paule Pileni, to resign as she accused the publisher of printing it without her knowledge; this article was titled 'Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe', and stated that they had found evidence of nano-thermite in samples of the dust that was produced during the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.NIST responded that there was no "clear chain of custody" to prove that the four samples of dust came from the WTC site.Jones invited NIST to conduct its own studies using its own known "chain of custody" dust, but NIST did not investigate.