“…In terms of creep resistance, it has also been shown that the presence of a high fraction of special boundaries decreases the creep rate of Ni, Ni-16Cr-Fe, Alloy 625, and Alloy 738. 7,10,15,17,18 In fact, pure Ni microstructures containing special grainboundary fractions in excess of 50% exhibit improvements of 15-fold and fivefold, respectively, in steadystate creep rate and primary creep strain. 7,15 The EBSD hardware and software used in this work were manufactured by EDAX-TSL, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ).…”