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Communications Chemistry, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s42004-026-02239-5Antibiotics and synthetic dyes, which are considered persistent pollutants in wastewater, cannot be removed effectively by conventional wastewater treatments based on mechanical-biological processes. Here, the authors develop composite photocatalysts combining barium titanate and zinc oxide via a simple hydrothermal method, demonstrating their application to the degradation of a mixture of multiple pollutants (ciprofloxacin, tetracycline, methylene blue and methyl orange) in a heterogeneous photocatalytic process, in which photogenerated holes act as the dominant reactive species.