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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>A correlation is established between the relaxation mode of non‐equilibrium solid‐liquid interfaces and the sign and magnitude of the lattice mismatch between a substrate and the solid which is in equilibrium with the liquid phase contacting the substrate. For a positive mismatch of a resulting film and the substrate the relaxation proceeds via substrate dissolution or spatially separated dissolution and growth; for a negative mismatch the melt droplets penetrate into the substrate. To illustrate this correlation we use examples from the literature as well as our own experimental results on isothermal contact of binary and ternary III‐V melts (saturated with respect to native solids) with different III‐V substrates.</jats:p>