Patent ID: 8932483
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: C08G,C08K,C09K

Abstract:
1. A thermoplastic composition that comprises at least one thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer, wherein the total amount of repeating units in the thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer derived from naphthenic hydroxycarboxylic and/or naphthenic dicarboxylic acids is no more than 15 mol. %, the thermoplastic composition further comprising at least one aromatic carboxylic acid, and further wherein the thermoplastic composition has a melt viscosity of from about 0.1 to about 80 Pa-s, as determined in accordance with ISO Test No. 11443 at a shear rate of 1000 seconds −1 and temperature that is 15° C. above the melting temperature of the thermoplastic composition.