**Cross fertilization between polymer crystallization and metal solidification**

Physical chemists and metallurgists alike are constantly confronted with materials properties related to (polymer) crystallization (*e.g.*, spherulite size distribution, lamellae spacing) or (metal) solidification (*e.g.*, grain size distribution, dendrite arm or eutectic spacing), respectively. In metal science, if accurate numerical modelling of dendritic growth remains a major challenge even with today's powerful computers, the growth kinetic theories, using accurate surface tension and/or kinetic anisotropies, are well advanced (Asta et al., 2009; Flemings, 1974). In polymer science, such approaches exist. But still insight into the physics/kinetics connection and morphologies is little known (Piorkowska et al., 2006). The most well-known growth kinetics theory is the one of Hoffman and coworkers (Hoffman, 1983) which is based on the concept of secondary nucleation; the nucleation and overall kinetics of crystallization have been also intensively studied (Avrami, 1939, 1940, 1941; Binsbergen, 1973; Haudin & Chenot, 2004).
