An interesting insight onto thermite googling:
Google "thermite" and you're presented with mostly reputable articles about its chemical makeup and a few on its construction. Two on the top page deal with 9/11 - one from
whatreallyhappened.com and the other is a 9/11 debunker site.
Google "sol gel nanothermite" and the overwhelming volume is all 9/11 conspiracy sites. The only semi-reputable link returned is this:
http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2007/preliminaryprogram/abstract_104182.htm
This appears to be the abstract of a paper written on experiments with sol-gel nanothermite filed in 2007. Notice the Picatinny Arsenal referenced at the top. I'm not really adept at reading these sorts of things, so I'm not sure to what degree the Army was involved in the experiment. Most likely it was an "official observer." This seems to clash with other reports of it being developed at LLNL in the 1998-1999 timeframe, BTW.
If this is a legitimate technology that does in fact, exist outside of the conspiracy worldview, why isn't there more information on it outside of those sites? I realize that simply relying on volume of information returned from a search engine is a little facetious, but come on. From everything I've read this was never out of the experimental and testing phase in 2001. Why would they go to all the trouble of rigging the WTC with a compound that hadn't been tested on that scale? If it had been, it'd be used all over the place by now.
Oh, wait. I guess the very existence of the stuff is secret squirrel and the formula is in a Pentagon archive right next to the 500mpg carbouretor the government secured to keep of the market for the benefit of the big oil companies.
