Saeedi, A., Devireddy, R. and Kothari, M., 2026. A thermo-mechanically coupled finite-deformation model for freezing-induced damage in soft materials. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, p.106545.
 

​Saeedi, A. and Kothari, M., 2025. Push and Pull: Elastic Interaction Between Pressurized Spherical Cavities in Nonlinear Elastic Media. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 92(12), p.121010.
 

Saeedi, S. and Kothari, M. 2025. Elastic Interaction of Pressurized Cavities in Hyperelastic Media: Attraction and Repulsion.
 

Song, S., Kothari, M. and Kim, K.S., 2024. On Inherent Hyperelastic Crease. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, p.105716.
 

Nijjer, J., Li, C., Kothari, M., Henzel, T., Zhang, Q., Tai, J.S.B., Zhou, S., Cohen, T., Zhang, S. and Yan, J., 2023. Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics. Nature Physics, 19(12), pp.1936-1944.
 

Kothari, M. and Cohen, T., 2023. The crucial role of elasticity in regulating liquid–liquid phase separation in cells. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 22(2), pp.645-654.
 

Kothari, M. and Kim, K.S., 2022. Flexoelectricity-driven periodic buckling in multilayer graphene bonded to compliant substrate. MRS Communications, 12(5), pp.648-653.
 

Li, J.*, Kothari, M.*, Senthilnathan, C., Henzel, T., Zhang, Q., Li, X., Yan, J. and Cohen, T. 2021. Nonlinear Inclusion Theory with Application to the Growth and Morphogenesis of a Confined Body. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. (* = equal contribution)
 

Zhang, Q., Li, J., Nijjer, J., Lu, H., Kothari, M., Alert, R., Cohen, T. and Yan, J. 2021. Morphogenesis and cell ordering in confined bacterial biofilms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
 

Kothari, M. and Cohen, T., 2020. Effect of elasticity on phase separation in heterogeneous systems. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
 

Kothari, M., Lemon, Z., Roth, C. and Cohen, T. 2020. Controlled propagation and jamming of a delamination front. Soft Matter.
 

Kothari, M., Niu, S. and Srivastava, V., 2019. A thermo-mechanically coupled finite strain model for phase-transitioning austenitic steels in ambient to cryogenic temperature range. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, p.103729.
 

Kothari, M., Cha, M.H., Lefevre, V. and Kim, K.S., 2019. Critical curvature localization in graphene. II. Nonlocal flexoelectricity-dielectricity coupling. Proc. R. Soc. A, 475(2221), p.20180671.
 

Kothari, M., Cha, M.H. and Kim, K.S., 2018. Critical curvature localization in graphene. I. Quantum-flexoelectricity effect. Proc. R. Soc. A, 474(2214), p.20180054.
 

Li, R., Kothari, M., Landauer, A.K., Cha, M.H., Kwon, H. and Kim, K.S., 2018. A New Subcritical Nanostructure of Graphene—Crinkle-Ruga Structure and Its Novel Properties. MRS Advances, pp.1-7.