Patent ID: 8691917

Claim:
A composition comprising, or produced by mixing, a mixture of, based on the weight of the mixture, 70 to 99 weight % of an ionomer composition and 1 to 30 weight % of an imidized acrylic resin wherein the ionomer composition is produced from at least one ethylene acid copolymer by a process comprising neutralizing at least a portion of the acid moieties in the acid copolymer with a salt containing alkali metal cations, alkaline earth metal cations, transition metal cations, or combinations of two or more thereof; the ethylene acid copolymer comprises copolymerized comonomers of ethylene, about 3 to about 30 weight % of copolymerized comonomers of at least one C 3 to C 8 α,β ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and 0 to about 30 weight of copolymerized comomers of at least one C 3 to C 8 α,β ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid ester, based on the total weight of the ethylene acid copolymer, and the reminder is ethylene; and the imidized acrylic resin has a degree of imidization from 20% to 100%.