“…As EBC top coat grain boundaries are pathways for both steam permeation (Wada et al, 2017;Kitaoka et al, 2018;Matsudaira et al, 2021) and CMAS infiltration (Sternlicht et al, 2022b), determining the grain size can provide a measure of the EBC's corrosion resistance. Additionally, measuring grain size can evaluate grain coarsening during thermal exposure (Yilmaz et al, 2023), or understand the effect of secondary phases pinning grain boundaries (Paksoy and Xiao, 2021). For this measurement of grain size, electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) (Humphreys, 2001) or image processing of SEM micrographs are standard methods (ASTM International, 2021b).…”