'thus hampering' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean "hindering or impeding something" or "making something more difficult". For example, "With the new regulations, businesses face increased costs, thus hampering their ability to remain competitive".
Furthermore, scaling up is difficult thus hampering commercialization.
By focusing mainly on BMI people are ignoring more important issues, and thus, hampering their progress.
However, conventional techniques depend on the irreversible immobilization of cells onto cantilevers, thus hampering throughput.
#leveson Murdoch blames police for seizing evidence, thus hampering News International's ability to investigate hacking.
Water vapor plays a clear competitive role for surface sites adsorption, thus hampering the ethanol photo-oxidation.
In laboratory experiments, Dr. Charness and his colleagues showed that alcohol could interfere with L1's stickiness, thus hampering crucial cell-to-cell attachments.
However, thiazole orange is non-selective for G-quadruplex and other nucleic acids, thus hampering its further application.
The results of recent studies vary widely, lacking robustness and thus hampering their application in policy making.
Nevertheless, existing solutions mostly rely on either pre-deployed infrastructures or user device participation, thus hampering their wide adoption.
However, it still remains challenging to integrate the two approaches experimentally in individual cells, thus hampering a full understanding of regulatory association between these two layers.
At The New York Times, mem bers of Typographical Union No. 6 have been holding chapel (union) meetings of varying length in the composing room, thus hampering production.
