'hamper the efficiency' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or activity where something or someone is hindering progress or making it difficult to work quickly and effectively. For example: "The heavy rain was hampering the efficiency of the construction workers on the building site."
These events may hamper the efficiency of the trans-splicing process and/or lead to toxicity.
However, the environmental influence and image noise hamper the efficiency of automatic diagnosis.
However, coupled multi-disciplines and cross propagation hamper the efficiency and accuracy of high-dimensional uncertainty analysis.
However, the unbalances between host metabolism and recombinant biosynthesis continue to hamper the efficiency of these recombinant bioprocesses.
Science policy implies differences in focus, needs and strategy[15] which, if not addressed, may severely hamper the efficiency of the translational process.
A bundle configuration is likely to hamper the efficiency of nutrient uptake systems, and will likely create significant local accumulation of metabolic by products, such as the photosynthetically-derived molecular oxygen.
The main disadvantage of the generation of sulfur is that it retards or hampers the efficiency of the leaching process.
This finding is not strange as this has been observed to be a phenomenon hampering the efficiency and effectiveness of many African water ministries and parastatals.
Despite the fact the CO2-EOR is gaining dominance compared to other EOR methods, the existence of an unfavourable mobility ratio has hampered the efficiency of the CO2 usage as a favourable displacement fluid.
Data encryption offers robust security, but at the cost of hampering the efficiency of the service and limiting the functionalities that can be applied over the (encrypted) data stored on cloud premises.
It highlights the fact that for some values of k and ε, group size has a positive effect on the individual time allocated to foraging without hampering the efficiency of vigilance at the group level.
