Titanium is commonly added to nickel superalloys but has a well-documented
detrimental effect on oxidation resistance. The present work constitutes the
first atomistic-scale quantitative measurements of grain boundary and bulk
compositions in the oxide scale of a current generation polycrystalline nickel
superalloy performed through atom probe tomography. Titanium was found to be
particularly detrimental to oxide scale growth through grain boundary
diffusion
