| abstract |
The present invention relates to a polyamide that is a polyamide (A) having a dicarboxylic acid unit and a diamine unit, wherein more than 40 mol % and 100 mol % or less of the dicarboxylic acid unit is a naphthalenedicarboxylic acid unit, and 60 mol % or more and 100 mol % or less of the diamine unit is a branched aliphatic diamine unit and a linear aliphatic diamine unit of an arbitrary structural unit, and a proportion of the branched aliphatic diamine unit relative to the total 100 mol % of the branched aliphatic diamine unit and the linear aliphatic diamine unit is 60 mol % or more; and a polyamide composition containing the polyamide. |