Patent ID: 8906258

Claim:
A thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer composition that comprises a melt-polymerized liquid crystalline polymer, wherein the total amount of repeating units in the polymer derived from naphthenic hydroxycarboxylic or naphthenic dicarboxylic acids is no more than about 5 mol. %, and wherein the polymer composition has a melting temperature of from about 250° C. to about 400° C. and exhibits a deflection temperature under load such that the ratio of the deflection temperature under load to the melting temperature is from about 0.5 to about 1, the deflection temperature under load being determined in accordance ISO Test No. 75-2 at a load of 1.8 Megapascals, and further comprising an aromatic amide oligomer having the following general formula (I): wherein, ring B is a 6-membered aromatic ring wherein 1 to 3 ring carbon atoms are optionally replaced by nitrogen or oxygen, wherein each nitrogen is optionally oxidized, and wherein ring B may be optionally fused or linked to a 5- or 6-membered aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, or heterocyclyl; R 5 is halo, haloalkyl, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, or heterocyclyl; m is from 0 to 4; X 1 and X 2 are independently C(O)HN or NHC(O); and R 1 and R 2 are independently selected from aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, and heterocyclyl.