From the little context you’ve given, it seems to me that you could use either word. The word ‘could’ would be more tentative.
You can say “a certain kind of material” -OR- “certain kinds of materials”.
I think the latter is probably best for your context.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard anyone use the word “multifolded”. Did you actually find this in a dictionary? I’d suggest using the word “multifaceted”:
“… in a scenario as [color=blue]multifaceted as the one described herein…”
As a matter of fact, I heard someone using the word “multifolded” with the meaning of “multifaceted”…but he was not a ntaive speaker.
I tink the word multifolded sounds fine, but I do not want to mislead he readers… I serched it on the internet and came up with several different things