  There has been an increasing demand for materials with special thermal
properties, whereas experimental discovery is high-cost and time-consuming. The
emerging discipline `Materials Informatics' is an effective approach that can
accelerate materials development by combining material science and big data
technique. Recently materials informatics has been applied to the design of
novel materials such as thermal interface materials for heat-dissipation, and
thermoelectric materials for power generation. This mini-review summarized the
research progress on the applications of materials informatics for the thermal
transport properties prediction and discovery of materials with special thermal
properties, including optimal thermal conductivity, interfacial thermal
conductance and thermoelectricity efficiency. In addition, some perspectives
are given for the outlook of materials informatics in the field of thermal
transport.
